Researchers Claim AI May Be the Ultimate Tool for Hiding Secret Messages in Videos

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• Abstract and 1. Introduction
• 2. Related Work
• 3. Proposed Approach
• 4. Experiments
• 4.1. Experimental Setups
• 4.2. Performance Analysis
• 4.3. Ablation Study
• Conclusions and References

5. CONCLUSIONS

We propose a robust generative video steganography method based on visual editing, which modifies semantic feature to embed secret message. We use face-swapping scenario as an example to show the effectiveness of our RoGVS. The results showcase that our method can generate high-quality visually edited stego videos. What’s more, RoGVS outperforms existing video and image steganography methods in robustness and capacity.

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