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Steganography is the ability to hide a message so that third parties cannot perceive communication between them. Thus, one of the precautions in steganography is the size of the message you want to hide, as the security of the message is inversely proportional to its size. Inspired by this principle, video steganography appears to expand channels further and incorporate data into a message. To improve the construction of better stego-frames and recovered secrets, we propose a new architecture for video steganography derived from the Spatial-Temporal Adaptive Filter Network (STFAN) in conjunction with the Attention mechanism, which together generates filters and maps dynamic frames to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of frame processing, exploiting the redundancy present in the temporal dimension of the video, as well as fine details such as edges, fast-moving pixels and the context of secret and cover frames and by using the DWT method as another feature extraction level, having the same characteristics as when applied to an image file.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/computers13070180","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,19]],"date-time":"2024-07-19T13:12:57Z","timestamp":1721394777000},"page":"180","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Stego-STFAN: A Novel Neural Network for Video Steganography"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4551-2240","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Guilherme Fay","family":"Vergara","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bras\u00edlia, Federal District, Bras\u00edlia 70910-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-2657-6976","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pedro","family":"Giacomelli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bras\u00edlia, Federal District, Bras\u00edlia 70910-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5182-0496","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andr\u00e9 Luiz Marques","family":"Serrano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bras\u00edlia, Federal District, Bras\u00edlia 70910-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7100-7304","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"F\u00e1bio L\u00facio Lopes de","family":"Mendon\u00e7a","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bras\u00edlia, Federal District, Bras\u00edlia 70910-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4502-2153","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gabriel Arquelau Pimenta","family":"Rodrigues","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bras\u00edlia, Federal District, Bras\u00edlia 70910-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4938-2076","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Guilherme Dantas","family":"Bispo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bras\u00edlia, Federal District, Bras\u00edlia 70910-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3771-2605","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vin\u00edcius Pereira","family":"Gon\u00e7alves","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bras\u00edlia, Federal District, Bras\u00edlia 70910-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6717-3374","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Robson de Oliveira","family":"Albuquerque","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bras\u00edlia, Federal District, Bras\u00edlia 70910-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1101-3029","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rafael Tim\u00f3teo de","family":"Sousa J\u00fanior","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bras\u00edlia, Federal District, Bras\u00edlia 70910-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"133","article-title":"Implementing digitalization in the public sector. 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