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Optimizing Region of Interest Selection for Effective Embedding in Video Steganography Based on Genetic Algorithms

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract: With the widespread use of the internet, there is an increasing need to ensure the security and privacy of transmitted data. This has led to an intensified focus on the study of video steganography, which is a technique that hides data within a video cover to avoid detection. The effectiveness of any steganography method depends on its ability to embed data without altering the original video's quality while maintaining high efficiency. This paper proposes a new method to video steganography, which involves utilizing a Genetic Algorithm (GA) for identifying the Region of Interest (ROI) in the cover video. The ROI is the area in the video that is the most suitable for data embedding. The secret data is encrypted using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which is a widely accepted encryption standard, before being embedded into the cover video, utilizing up to 10% of the cover video. This process ensures the security and confidentiality of the embedded data. The performance metrics for assessing the proposed method are the Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and the encoding and decoding time. The results show that the proposed method has a high embedding capacity and efficiency, with a PSNR ranging between 64 and 75 dBs, which indicates that the embedded data is almost indistinguishable from the original video.


HitPaw Univd is a 120X Faster Video Converter and Compressor

PCWorld

The AI analyses the track and intelligently filters out vocals, making it ideal for even novices to create karaoke tracks, remixes, or instrumental versions of songs. The Audio Enhancer by HitPaw Univd boosts audio quality by eliminating unwanted background noise and enhancing clarity. Whether you're working with podcasts, voiceovers, or music tracks, this feature ensures your audio sounds professional by automatically adjusting volume levels, reducing distortion, and fine-tuning the sound.


20 obscure Windows features every student should know about

PCWorld

Windows PCs are incredibly powerful and flexible, and that's true even before you install any apps. As it turns out, Windows itself is chock-full of useful features that few people actually know about. If you're a college student who wants to take your college laptop to the next level, here are several obscure Windows features that'll help you whether you're taking notes, researching projects, or otherwise. Windows 11 has a feature called Live Captions that listens to audio and automatically generates readable captions on the fly. It works when you're watching a video, but it also works with audio captured by your microphone.


Annolid: Annotate, Segment, and Track Anything You Need

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Annolid is a deep learning-based software package designed for the segmentation, labeling, and tracking of research targets within video files, focusing primarily on animal behavior analysis. Based on state-of-the-art instance segmentation methods, Annolid now harnesses the Cutie video object segmentation model to achieve resilient, markerless tracking of multiple animals from single annotated frames, even in environments in which they may be partially or entirely concealed by environmental features or by one another. Our integration of Segment Anything and Grounding-DINO strategies additionally enables the automatic masking and segmentation of recognizable animals and objects by text command, removing the need for manual annotation. Annolid's comprehensive approach to object segmentation flexibly accommodates a broad spectrum of behavior analysis applications, enabling the classification of diverse behavioral states such as freezing, digging, pup huddling, and social interactions in addition to the tracking of animals and their body parts.


9 free AI tools that run locally on your PC

PCWorld

It's no coincidence that many programs using artificial intelligence techniques are open source and thus completely free. This is because the early approaches originated in academia, where free licences for software are common practice in order to promote collaboration and further development. Here, however, it is not about frameworks and libraries for forms of AI, but about tangible and useful applications of artificial intelligence for your own computer. The term AI encompasses various methods such as neural networks, machine learning, deep learning, or natural language processing. In the following compilation, all these approaches are represented. The various approaches to pattern recognition, machine-processed decision trees, and automation of tasks are built on training data and models that are already ready. The availability of this data is one of the reasons why useful AI techniques are available in freely available software today at all.


Synthetic Distracted Driving (SynDD2) dataset for analyzing distracted behaviors and various gaze zones of a driver

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This article presents a synthetic distracted driving (SynDD2 - a continuum of SynDD1 [1]) dataset for machine learning models to detect and analyze drivers' various distracted behavior and different gaze zones. We collected the data in a stationary vehicle using three in-vehicle cameras positioned at locations: on the dashboard, near the rearview mirror, and on the top right-side window corner. The dataset contains two activity types: distracted activities [2][3][4] and gaze zones [5][6][7] for each participant, and each activity type has two sets: without appearance blocks and with appearance blocks such as wearing a hat or sunglasses. The order and duration of each activity for each participant are random. In addition, the dataset contains manual annotations for each activity, having its start and end time annotated. Researchers could use this dataset to evaluate the performance of machine learning algorithms to classify various distracting activities and gaze zones of drivers.


A dataset for audio-video based vehicle speed estimation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Accurate speed estimation of road vehicles is important for several reasons. One is speed limit enforcement, which represents a crucial tool in decreasing traffic accidents and fatalities. Compared with other research areas and domains, the number of available datasets for vehicle speed estimation is still very limited. We present a dataset of on-road audio-video recordings of single vehicles passing by a camera at known speeds, maintained stable by the on-board cruise control. The dataset contains thirteen vehicles, selected to be as diverse as possible in terms of manufacturer, production year, engine type, power and transmission, resulting in a total of $ 400 $ annotated audio-video recordings. The dataset is fully available and intended as a public benchmark to facilitate research in audio-video vehicle speed estimation. In addition to the dataset, we propose a cross-validation strategy which can be used in a machine learning model for vehicle speed estimation. Two approaches to training-validation split of the dataset are proposed.


Assembly AI offers AI-as-a-service API to ease model development

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Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Over the last decade, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have increasingly relied on neural networks to perform pattern recognition, machine learning (ML) and prediction. However, with ML models that consist of billions of parameters, training becomes more complicated as the model is unable to fit on a single GPU. Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 and Gopher cost millions of dollars and require vast amounts of computing resources, making it challenging for cash and resource-constrained organizations to enter the field.


Localize content into multiple languages using AWS machine learning services

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Over the last few years, online education platforms have seen an increase in adoption of and an uptick in demand for video-based learnings because it offers an effective medium to engage learners. To expand to international markets and address a culturally and linguistically diverse population, businesses are also looking at diversifying their learning offerings by localizing content into multiple languages. These businesses are looking for reliable and cost-effective ways to solve their localization use cases. Localizing content mainly includes translating original voices into new languages and adding visual aids such as subtitles. Traditionally, this process is cost-prohibitive, manual, and takes a lot of time, including working with localization specialists.


Create video subtitles with Amazon Transcribe using this no-code workflow

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Subtitle creation on video content poses challenges no matter how big or small the organization. To address those challenges, Amazon Transcribe has a helpful feature that enables subtitle creation directly within the service. There is no machine learning (ML) or code writing required to get started. This post walks you through setting up a no-code workflow for creating video subtitles using Amazon Transcribe within your Amazon Web Services account. The terms subtitles and closed captions are commonly used interchangeably, and both refer to spoken text displayed on the screen.