ICStega: Image Captioning-based Semantically Controllable Linguistic Steganography. (arXiv:2303.05830v1 [cs.CR])

Nowadays, social media has become the preferred communication platform for
web users but brought security threats. Linguistic steganography hides secret
data into text and sends it to the intended recipient to realize covert
communication. Compared to edit-based linguistic steganography,
generation-based approaches largely improve the payload capacity. However,
existing methods can only generate stego text alone. Another common behavior in
social media is sending semantically related image-text pairs. In this paper,
we put forward a novel image captioning-based stegosystem, where the …

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