Steganography is an authenticated technique for maintaining secrecy of embedded data. Steganography provides hardness of detecting the hidden data and has a potential capacity to hide the existence of confidential data. In this paper, we propose a novel steganography using coefficient replacement and adaptive scaling based on Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DTCWT) technique. The DTCWT and LWT 2 is applied on cover image and payload respectively to convert spatial domain into transform domain. The HH sub band coefficients of cover image are replaced by the LL sub band coefficients of payload to generate intermediate stego object and the adaptive scaling factor is used to scale down intermediate stego object coefficient values to generate final stego object. The adaptive scaling factor is determined based on entropy of cover image. The security and the capacity of the proposed method are high compared to the existing algorithms.
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a conditional entrench spatial domain steganography technique (CESS). CESS embeds secret information in the least significant bit and most significant bit of cover images based on predefined conditions to increase security and capacity. It decomposes cover images into 8x8 blocks. The first block embeds upper and lower bound values used for payload retrieval. Each subsequent 8x8 block embeds the payload in LSBs and MSBs of pixels based on the block's mean of median values and difference between consecutive pixels. The technique is evaluated based on capacity, security and PSNR compared to existing methods.
A Review of Comparison Techniques of Image SteganographyIOSR Journals
This document reviews and compares three common techniques for hiding information in digital images: Least Significant Bit (LSB) steganography, Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) steganography, and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) steganography. LSB is implemented in the spatial domain by replacing the least significant bits of cover image pixels with payload bits. DCT and DWT are implemented in the frequency domain by transforming the cover image and embedding payload bits in the transformed coefficients. The document evaluates and compares the performance of these three techniques based on metrics like mean squared error, peak signal-to-noise ratio, embedding capacity, and robustness.
This document describes a novel algorithm for image steganography using discrete wavelet transformation on a Beagle Board-XM. The algorithm uses discrete wavelet transformation and a modified AES technique to encrypt and hide a secret payload image in the LH, HL, and HH subbands of a cover image. The discrete wavelet transformation decomposes the cover image into frequency subbands. The secret image is encrypted using a modified AES algorithm before being embedded. This approach aims to provide better image quality and increased security compared to other steganography methods. The algorithm is implemented using the Beagle Board-XM and Open CV for reduced processing delays, costs, and resource requirements.
Information Hiding using LSB Technique based on Developed PSO Algorithm IJECEIAES
Generally, The sending process of secret information via the transmission channel or any carrier medium is not secured. For this reason, the techniques of information hiding are needed. Therefore, steganography must take place before transmission. To embed a secret message at optimal positions of the cover image under spatial domain, using the developed particle swarm optimization algorithm (Dev.-PSO) to do that purpose in this paper based on Least Significant Bits (LSB) using LSB substitution. The main aim of (Dev. -PSO) algorithm is determining an optimal paths to reach a required goals in the specified search space based on disposal of them, using (Dev.-PSO) algorithm produces the paths of a required goals with most efficient and speed. An agents population is used in determining process of a required goals at search space for solving of problem. The (Dev.-PSO) algorithm is applied to different images; the number of an image which used in the experiments in this paper is three. For all used images, the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) value is computed. Finally, the PSNR value of the stego-A that obtained from blue sub-band colo is equal (44.87) dB, while the stego-B is equal (44.45) dB, and the PSNR value for the stego-C is (43.97)dB, while the vlue of MSE that obtained from the same color subbans is (0.00989), stego-B equal to (0.01869), and stego-C is (0.02041). Furthermore, our proposed method has ability to survive the quality for the stego image befor and after hiding stage or under intended attack that used in the existing paper such as Gaussian noise, and salt & pepper noise.
A Secure & Optimized Data Hiding Technique Using DWT With PSNR ValueIJERA Editor
Multimedia applications are becoming increasingly significant in modern world. The mushroom growth of multimedia data of these applications, particularly over the web has increased the demand for protection of copyright. Digital watermarking is much more acceptable as a solution to the problem of copyright protection and authentication of multimedia data while working in a networked environment. In this paper, a DWT based watermarking scheme is proposed. We have used Genetic Algorithm (GA) in order to make an optimum tradeoff between imperceptibility and robustness by choosing an optimum watermarking level for each coefficient of the cover image. In addition to the suitable watermarking strength, the selection of best block size is also necessary for superior perceptual shaping functions. To achieve this goal we have trained and used GA to pick the best block size to tailor the watermark in one of the coefficients of the DWT. The fitness function criterion for the genetic algorithm decision making is based on PSNR values
Comparative Performance of Image Scrambling in Transform Domain using Sinusoi...CSCJournals
With the rapid development of technology, and the popularization of internet, communication is been greatly promoted. The communication is not limited only to information but also includes multimedia information like digital Images. Therefore, the security of digital images has become a very important and practical issue, and appropriate security technology is used for those digital images containing confidential or private information especially. In this paper a novel approach of Image scrambling has been proposed which includes both spatial as well as Transform domain. Experimental results prove that correlation obtained in scrambled images is much lesser then the one obtained in transformed images.
ON THE IMAGE QUALITY AND ENCODING TIMES OF LSB, MSB AND COMBINED LSB-MSBijcsit
The Least Significant Bit (LSB) algorithm and the Most Significant Bit (MSB) algorithm are stenography algorithms with each one having its demerits. This work therefore proposed a Hybrid approach and compared its efficiency with LSB and MSB algorithms. The Least Significant Bit (LSB) and Most
Significant Bit (MSB) techniques were combined in the proposed algorithm. Two bits (the least significant bit and the most significant bit) of the cover images were replaced with a secret message. Comparisons were made based on Mean-Squared Error (MSE), Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and the encoding time between the proposed algorithm, LSB and MSB after embedding in digital images. The combined
technique produced a stego-image with minimal distortion in image quality than MSB technique independent of the nature of data that was hidden. However, LSB algorithm produced the best stego-image quality. Large cover images however made the combined algorithm’s quality better improved. The combined algorithm had lesser time of image and text encoding. Therefore, a trade-off exists between the encoding time and the quality of stego-image as demonstrated in this work.
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new data hiding technique for hiding data in compressed video files. The technique embeds data by modifying the least significant bits of motion vectors used during video compression. Motion vectors associated with higher prediction errors are selected as candidate motion vectors to embed data. An adaptive threshold is used for each frame to minimize prediction error while maximizing data payload. The data can be extracted directly from the encoded video stream without the original video. The technique was tested on standard video sequences and was found to introduce minimal distortion and overhead.
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a conditional entrench spatial domain steganography technique (CESS). CESS embeds secret information in the least significant bit and most significant bit of cover images based on predefined conditions to increase security and capacity. It decomposes cover images into 8x8 blocks. The first block embeds upper and lower bound values used for payload retrieval. Each subsequent 8x8 block embeds the payload in LSBs and MSBs of pixels based on the block's mean of median values and difference between consecutive pixels. The technique is evaluated based on capacity, security and PSNR compared to existing methods.
A Review of Comparison Techniques of Image SteganographyIOSR Journals
This document reviews and compares three common techniques for hiding information in digital images: Least Significant Bit (LSB) steganography, Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) steganography, and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) steganography. LSB is implemented in the spatial domain by replacing the least significant bits of cover image pixels with payload bits. DCT and DWT are implemented in the frequency domain by transforming the cover image and embedding payload bits in the transformed coefficients. The document evaluates and compares the performance of these three techniques based on metrics like mean squared error, peak signal-to-noise ratio, embedding capacity, and robustness.
This document describes a novel algorithm for image steganography using discrete wavelet transformation on a Beagle Board-XM. The algorithm uses discrete wavelet transformation and a modified AES technique to encrypt and hide a secret payload image in the LH, HL, and HH subbands of a cover image. The discrete wavelet transformation decomposes the cover image into frequency subbands. The secret image is encrypted using a modified AES algorithm before being embedded. This approach aims to provide better image quality and increased security compared to other steganography methods. The algorithm is implemented using the Beagle Board-XM and Open CV for reduced processing delays, costs, and resource requirements.
Information Hiding using LSB Technique based on Developed PSO Algorithm IJECEIAES
Generally, The sending process of secret information via the transmission channel or any carrier medium is not secured. For this reason, the techniques of information hiding are needed. Therefore, steganography must take place before transmission. To embed a secret message at optimal positions of the cover image under spatial domain, using the developed particle swarm optimization algorithm (Dev.-PSO) to do that purpose in this paper based on Least Significant Bits (LSB) using LSB substitution. The main aim of (Dev. -PSO) algorithm is determining an optimal paths to reach a required goals in the specified search space based on disposal of them, using (Dev.-PSO) algorithm produces the paths of a required goals with most efficient and speed. An agents population is used in determining process of a required goals at search space for solving of problem. The (Dev.-PSO) algorithm is applied to different images; the number of an image which used in the experiments in this paper is three. For all used images, the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) value is computed. Finally, the PSNR value of the stego-A that obtained from blue sub-band colo is equal (44.87) dB, while the stego-B is equal (44.45) dB, and the PSNR value for the stego-C is (43.97)dB, while the vlue of MSE that obtained from the same color subbans is (0.00989), stego-B equal to (0.01869), and stego-C is (0.02041). Furthermore, our proposed method has ability to survive the quality for the stego image befor and after hiding stage or under intended attack that used in the existing paper such as Gaussian noise, and salt & pepper noise.
A Secure & Optimized Data Hiding Technique Using DWT With PSNR ValueIJERA Editor
Multimedia applications are becoming increasingly significant in modern world. The mushroom growth of multimedia data of these applications, particularly over the web has increased the demand for protection of copyright. Digital watermarking is much more acceptable as a solution to the problem of copyright protection and authentication of multimedia data while working in a networked environment. In this paper, a DWT based watermarking scheme is proposed. We have used Genetic Algorithm (GA) in order to make an optimum tradeoff between imperceptibility and robustness by choosing an optimum watermarking level for each coefficient of the cover image. In addition to the suitable watermarking strength, the selection of best block size is also necessary for superior perceptual shaping functions. To achieve this goal we have trained and used GA to pick the best block size to tailor the watermark in one of the coefficients of the DWT. The fitness function criterion for the genetic algorithm decision making is based on PSNR values
Comparative Performance of Image Scrambling in Transform Domain using Sinusoi...CSCJournals
With the rapid development of technology, and the popularization of internet, communication is been greatly promoted. The communication is not limited only to information but also includes multimedia information like digital Images. Therefore, the security of digital images has become a very important and practical issue, and appropriate security technology is used for those digital images containing confidential or private information especially. In this paper a novel approach of Image scrambling has been proposed which includes both spatial as well as Transform domain. Experimental results prove that correlation obtained in scrambled images is much lesser then the one obtained in transformed images.
ON THE IMAGE QUALITY AND ENCODING TIMES OF LSB, MSB AND COMBINED LSB-MSBijcsit
The Least Significant Bit (LSB) algorithm and the Most Significant Bit (MSB) algorithm are stenography algorithms with each one having its demerits. This work therefore proposed a Hybrid approach and compared its efficiency with LSB and MSB algorithms. The Least Significant Bit (LSB) and Most
Significant Bit (MSB) techniques were combined in the proposed algorithm. Two bits (the least significant bit and the most significant bit) of the cover images were replaced with a secret message. Comparisons were made based on Mean-Squared Error (MSE), Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and the encoding time between the proposed algorithm, LSB and MSB after embedding in digital images. The combined
technique produced a stego-image with minimal distortion in image quality than MSB technique independent of the nature of data that was hidden. However, LSB algorithm produced the best stego-image quality. Large cover images however made the combined algorithm’s quality better improved. The combined algorithm had lesser time of image and text encoding. Therefore, a trade-off exists between the encoding time and the quality of stego-image as demonstrated in this work.
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new data hiding technique for hiding data in compressed video files. The technique embeds data by modifying the least significant bits of motion vectors used during video compression. Motion vectors associated with higher prediction errors are selected as candidate motion vectors to embed data. An adaptive threshold is used for each frame to minimize prediction error while maximizing data payload. The data can be extracted directly from the encoded video stream without the original video. The technique was tested on standard video sequences and was found to introduce minimal distortion and overhead.
Cecimg an ste cryptographic approach for data security in imageijctet
The document presents a new algorithm called CECIMG (Canny edge encryption image steganography) for securing data in images. It combines Blowfish encryption with embedding encrypted data in the edge pixels of an image detected using Canny edge detection. The algorithm is implemented in Java and experiments show it provides better security and higher PSNR values than existing LSB steganography techniques. It securely stores encrypted data in images in a series of steps and allows retrieval of the original data. The algorithm aims to maximize security compared to traditional approaches.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Development is an international premier peer reviewed open access engineering and technology journal promoting the discovery, innovation, advancement and dissemination of basic and transitional knowledge in engineering, technology and related disciplines.
We follow "Rigorous Publication" model - means that all articles appear on IJERD after full appraisal, effectiveness, legitimacy and reliability of research content. International Journal of Engineering Research and Development publishes papers online as well as provide hard copy of Journal to authors after publication of paper. It is intended to serve as a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers to exchange ideas and results for the advancement of Engineering & Technology.
Cloud computing is a powerful, flexible, cost
efficient platform for providing consumer IT services
over the Internet. However Cloud Computing has
various level of risk because most important
information is maintained and managed by third party
vendors, which means harder to maintain security for
user’s data .Steganography is one of the ways to provide
security for secret data by inserting in an image or
video. In this most of the algorithms are based on the
Least Significant Bit (LSB), but the hackers easily
detects it embeds directly. An Efficient and secure
method of embedding secret message-extracting
message into or from color image using Artificial
Neural Network will be proposed. The proposed
method will be tested, implemented and analyzed for
various color images of different sizes and different
sizes of secret messages. The performance of the
algorithm will be analyzed by calculating various
parameters like PSNR, MSE and the results are good
compared to existing algorithms.
A robust combination of dwt and chaotic function for image watermarkingijctet
This document summarizes a research paper on a robust image watermarking technique that combines discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and a chaotic function. The proposed method embeds a watermark into selected blocks of the low-frequency DWT subband of an image. It calculates the Euclidean distance between blocks of the watermark and image to select the most similar block for embedding. Experimental results on standard test images show the proposed method achieves better performance than previous methods in terms of PSNR and structural similarity under compression attacks. The extraction accuracy remains high even with noise attacks, though it degrades more under filtering attacks.
Design and Implementation of Lifting Based Wavelet and Adaptive LSB Steganogr...Dr. Amarjeet Singh
Image steganography is an art of hiding images
secretly within another image. There are several ways of
performing image steganography; one among them is the
spatial approach. The most popular spatial domain approach
of image steganography is the Least Significant Bit (LSB)
method, which hides the secret image pixel information in the
LSB of the cover image pixel information. In this paper a
LSB based steganography approach is used to design
hardware architecture for the Image steganography. The
Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is used here to transform
the cover image into higher and lower wavelet coefficients
and use these coefficients in hiding the secret image. the
design also includes encryption of secret image data, to
provide a higher level of security to the secret image. The
steganography system involving the stegno module and a
decode module is designed here. The design was simulated,
synthesized and implemented on Artix -7 FPGA. The
operation hiding and retrieving images was successfully
verified through simulations.
IJERA (International journal of Engineering Research and Applications) is International online, ... peer reviewed journal. For more detail or submit your article, please visit www.ijera.com
This document summarizes an article that proposes a new image steganography technique using discrete wavelet transform. The technique applies an adaptive pixel pair matching method from the spatial domain to the frequency domain. Data is embedded in the middle frequencies of the discrete wavelet transformed image because they are more robust to attacks than high frequencies. The coefficients in the low frequency sub-band are preserved unchanged to improve image quality. The experimental results showed better performance with discrete wavelet transform compared to the spatial domain.
Steganography is going to gain its importance due to the exponential growth and secret communication of potential computer users over the internet [5]. It can also be defined as the study of invisible communication that usually deals with the ways of hiding the existence of the communicated message. Generally data embedding is achieved in communication, image, text, voice or multimedia content for copyright, military communication, authentication and many other purposes [2]. In image Steganography, secret communication is achieved to embed a message into cover image (used as the carrier to embed message into) and generate a stego- image (generated image which is carrying a hidden message)[1]. In this paper we have critically analyzed various steganographic techniques and also have covered steganography overview its major types, classification, applications [3]. KEYWORDS: STEGANOGRAPHY, STEGO IMAGE, COVER IMAGE, LSB
A NOVEL PERCEPTUAL IMAGE ENCRYPTION SCHEME USING GEOMETRIC OBJECTS BASED KERNELijcsit
The wide use of digital images and videos in various applications warrant serious attention to the security and privacy issues today. Several encryption techniques have been proposed in recent years as feasible solutions to the protection of digital images and videos. In many applications, such as pay-per-view videos,pay-TV and video on demand, one of the required features is that the quality of the video data be degraded only partially by some encryption technique and the encrypted data must still be partially perceptible. This feature referred to as ‘Perceptual encryption’ is the encryption algorithm that degrades the quality of media content according to security or quality requirements. In this work we propose a simple yet efficient technique for realizing perceptual encryption using geometric objects as kernels based on which the pixels are permuted. Confusion aspect that is required is realized by inserting the kernel on the image and thereby performing transposition of pixels based on the kernel formed out of geometric objects. The various parameters of geometric objects, number of objects and the position of the objects/kernel in the image are used as the key for encryption and later on for decryption. Further a choice of quality of the image required i.e., different levels of degradation is provided by adjusting the above parameters of the objects/kernel.From the results obtained it is evident that the proposed method which is more apt for perceptual encryption can also be used effectively for full image encryption with acceptable level of security.
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IRJET- An Overview of Hiding Information in H.264/Avc Compressed VideoIRJET Journal
This document provides an overview of hiding information in H.264/AVC compressed video. It discusses different information hiding techniques such as bit plane replacement, spread spectrum, histogram manipulation and matrix encryption. It identifies locations within the H.264 video compression process where information can be hidden, such as during prediction, transformation, quantization and entropy coding. It reviews related information hiding strategies for each location and compares strategies based on payload, overhead, video quality and complexity. The document aims to provide a better understanding of information hiding in compressed video and identify new opportunities.
1. The document discusses data hiding techniques for images, specifically uniform embedding. It reviews existing methods like LSB substitution and proposes developing a new technique to select pixels for embedding, reduce embedded text size, and increase confidentiality.
2. It surveys related work on minimizing distortion in steganography, a modified matrix encoding technique for low distortion, and designing adaptive steganographic schemes.
3. The objectives are to develop a new pixel selection technique for embedding, reduce embedded text size, and increase resistance to extraction through high confidentiality. The significance is providing a solution to digital image steganography problems and focusing on choosing pixels to embed text under conditions.
AN EFFECTIVE SEMANTIC ENCRYPTED RELATIONAL DATA USING K-NN MODELijsptm
Data exchange and data publishing are becoming an important part of business and academic practices.
Data owners need to maintain the rights over the datasets they share. A right-protection mechanism can be
provided for the ownership of shared data, without revealing its usage under a wide range of machine
learning and mining. In the approach provide two algorithms: the Nearest-Neighbors (NN) and determiner
preserves the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST). The K-NN protocol guarantees that relations between object
remain unaltered. The algorithms preserve the both right protection and utility preservation. The rightprotection
scheme is based on watermarking. Watermarking methodology preserves the distance
relationships.
TEXT STEGANOGRAPHY USING LSB INSERTION METHOD ALONG WITH CHAOS THEORYIJCSEA Journal
The art of information hiding has been around nearly as long as the need for covert communication. Steganography, the concealing of information, arose early on as an extremely useful method for covert information transmission. Steganography is the art of hiding secret message within a larger image or message such that the hidden message or an image is undetectable; this is in contrast to cryptography, where the existence of the message itself is not disguised, but the content is obscure. The goal of a steganographic method is to minimize the visually apparent and statistical differences between the cover data and a steganogram while maximizing the size of the payload. Current digital image steganography presents the challenge of hiding message in a digital image in a way that is robust to image manipulation and attack. This paper explains about how a secret message can be hidden into an image using least significant bit insertion method along with chaos.
A Survey of different Data Hiding Techniques in Digital Imagesijsrd.com
Steganography is the art and science of invisible communication, which hides the existence of the communicated message into media such as text, audio, image and video without any suspicion. Steganography is different from cryptography and watermarking in its objectives which includes undetectability, robustness (resistance to various image processing methods and compression) and capacity of the hidden data. Image Steganography uses digital image as its cover media. This paper analyzes and discusses various techniques available today for image steganography along with their strengths and weaknesses.
A novel steganographic technique based on lsb dct approach by Mohit GoelMohit Goel
The document summarizes a research paper presented at the National Conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Computing Technologies. The paper proposes a novel steganographic technique that embeds data by altering the least significant bit of low frequency discrete cosine transform coefficients of image blocks. Experimental results showed the technique has a better peak signal-to-noise ratio value and higher data capacity compared to other techniques like least significant bit, modulus arithmetic, and SSB4-DCT embedding. It also maintains satisfactory security as the secret message cannot be extracted without knowing the decoding algorithm.
This document discusses data hiding techniques for images. It begins by introducing steganography and some common image steganography methods like LSB substitution, blocking, and palette modification. It then reviews related work on minimizing distortion in steganography, modifying matrix encoding for minimal distortion, and designing adaptive steganographic schemes. The document proposes using a universal distortion measure to evaluate embedding changes independently of the domain. It presents a system for reversible data hiding in encrypted images that partitions the image, encrypts it, hides data in the encrypted image, and allows extraction from the decrypted or encrypted image. Least significant bit substitution is discussed as an approach for hiding data in the encrypted image.
This document summarizes an analysis of iris recognition based on false acceptance rate (FAR) and false rejection rate (FRR) using the Hough transform. It first provides an overview of iris recognition and its typical stages: image acquisition, localization/segmentation, normalization, feature extraction, and pattern matching. It then describes existing methods used in each stage, including the Hough transform and rubber sheet model for localization and normalization. The proposed methodology applies Canny edge detection, Hough transform for boundary detection, normalization with the rubber sheet model, and calculates metrics like mean squared error, root mean squared error, signal-to-noise ratio, and root signal-to-noise ratio to evaluate the accuracy of iris recognition using FAR
Iaetsd design of image steganography using haar dwtIaetsd Iaetsd
This document proposes a design for image steganography using Haar discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and average alpha blending techniques. The Haar DWT is used to decompose images into four frequency bands (LL, LH, HL, HH) because it requires less hardware than other transforms like DCT or DFT. The LL bands of the cover and secret images are then blended using average alpha blending according to an alpha value, which represents the percentage of pixel values considered. This blending embeds the secret image into the cover image in the frequency domain. The design aims to balance imperceptibility, quality, and capacity while reducing hardware requirements compared to other transforms.
In recent time, the Steganography technique is broadly used for the secret data communication. It’s an art of hiding the secret data in another objects like videos, images, videos, graphics and documents to gain the stego or steganographic object so which it’s not affected by the insertion. In this paper, we are introducing a new methodology in which security of stego-image increase by embedding even and odd part secret image into R, G, B plane of cover image using LSB and ISB technique. As we can see from the results session the value of PSNR , NCC are getting increase while the value of MSE is getting decrease.
A Comparative Study And Literature Review Of Image Steganography TechniquesRick Vogel
This document reviews and compares various image steganography techniques that have been proposed by researchers. It begins with defining steganography as hiding communication to prevent detection by enemies. Image steganography techniques hide data in digital images by modifying pixel values. The document evaluates techniques based on invisibility, payload capacity, robustness, file format independence, and image quality using PSNR. Several literature examples are reviewed, including techniques using integer wavelet transform, bit plane complexity analysis, data compression prior to embedding, and transformations like DCT and Arnold transform for increased security. Overall the document provides an overview of image steganography concepts and a comparative analysis of different proposed techniques.
A Novel Technique for Image Steganography Based on DWT and Huffman EncodingCSCJournals
This document presents a novel image steganography technique based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and Huffman encoding. The technique embeds a secret image into a cover image in the frequency domain after applying DWT. It first Huffman encodes the secret image, then embeds the encoded bits in the high frequency DWT coefficients of the cover image. Experimental results show the technique achieves a high embedding capacity while maintaining a good peak signal-to-noise ratio between the cover and stego images, providing both invisibility and security as the secret image cannot be extracted without the Huffman table. Compared to an existing DWT-based method, the proposed technique provides better image quality for the same embedding capacity.
Cecimg an ste cryptographic approach for data security in imageijctet
The document presents a new algorithm called CECIMG (Canny edge encryption image steganography) for securing data in images. It combines Blowfish encryption with embedding encrypted data in the edge pixels of an image detected using Canny edge detection. The algorithm is implemented in Java and experiments show it provides better security and higher PSNR values than existing LSB steganography techniques. It securely stores encrypted data in images in a series of steps and allows retrieval of the original data. The algorithm aims to maximize security compared to traditional approaches.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Development is an international premier peer reviewed open access engineering and technology journal promoting the discovery, innovation, advancement and dissemination of basic and transitional knowledge in engineering, technology and related disciplines.
We follow "Rigorous Publication" model - means that all articles appear on IJERD after full appraisal, effectiveness, legitimacy and reliability of research content. International Journal of Engineering Research and Development publishes papers online as well as provide hard copy of Journal to authors after publication of paper. It is intended to serve as a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers to exchange ideas and results for the advancement of Engineering & Technology.
Cloud computing is a powerful, flexible, cost
efficient platform for providing consumer IT services
over the Internet. However Cloud Computing has
various level of risk because most important
information is maintained and managed by third party
vendors, which means harder to maintain security for
user’s data .Steganography is one of the ways to provide
security for secret data by inserting in an image or
video. In this most of the algorithms are based on the
Least Significant Bit (LSB), but the hackers easily
detects it embeds directly. An Efficient and secure
method of embedding secret message-extracting
message into or from color image using Artificial
Neural Network will be proposed. The proposed
method will be tested, implemented and analyzed for
various color images of different sizes and different
sizes of secret messages. The performance of the
algorithm will be analyzed by calculating various
parameters like PSNR, MSE and the results are good
compared to existing algorithms.
A robust combination of dwt and chaotic function for image watermarkingijctet
This document summarizes a research paper on a robust image watermarking technique that combines discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and a chaotic function. The proposed method embeds a watermark into selected blocks of the low-frequency DWT subband of an image. It calculates the Euclidean distance between blocks of the watermark and image to select the most similar block for embedding. Experimental results on standard test images show the proposed method achieves better performance than previous methods in terms of PSNR and structural similarity under compression attacks. The extraction accuracy remains high even with noise attacks, though it degrades more under filtering attacks.
Design and Implementation of Lifting Based Wavelet and Adaptive LSB Steganogr...Dr. Amarjeet Singh
Image steganography is an art of hiding images
secretly within another image. There are several ways of
performing image steganography; one among them is the
spatial approach. The most popular spatial domain approach
of image steganography is the Least Significant Bit (LSB)
method, which hides the secret image pixel information in the
LSB of the cover image pixel information. In this paper a
LSB based steganography approach is used to design
hardware architecture for the Image steganography. The
Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is used here to transform
the cover image into higher and lower wavelet coefficients
and use these coefficients in hiding the secret image. the
design also includes encryption of secret image data, to
provide a higher level of security to the secret image. The
steganography system involving the stegno module and a
decode module is designed here. The design was simulated,
synthesized and implemented on Artix -7 FPGA. The
operation hiding and retrieving images was successfully
verified through simulations.
IJERA (International journal of Engineering Research and Applications) is International online, ... peer reviewed journal. For more detail or submit your article, please visit www.ijera.com
This document summarizes an article that proposes a new image steganography technique using discrete wavelet transform. The technique applies an adaptive pixel pair matching method from the spatial domain to the frequency domain. Data is embedded in the middle frequencies of the discrete wavelet transformed image because they are more robust to attacks than high frequencies. The coefficients in the low frequency sub-band are preserved unchanged to improve image quality. The experimental results showed better performance with discrete wavelet transform compared to the spatial domain.
Steganography is going to gain its importance due to the exponential growth and secret communication of potential computer users over the internet [5]. It can also be defined as the study of invisible communication that usually deals with the ways of hiding the existence of the communicated message. Generally data embedding is achieved in communication, image, text, voice or multimedia content for copyright, military communication, authentication and many other purposes [2]. In image Steganography, secret communication is achieved to embed a message into cover image (used as the carrier to embed message into) and generate a stego- image (generated image which is carrying a hidden message)[1]. In this paper we have critically analyzed various steganographic techniques and also have covered steganography overview its major types, classification, applications [3]. KEYWORDS: STEGANOGRAPHY, STEGO IMAGE, COVER IMAGE, LSB
A NOVEL PERCEPTUAL IMAGE ENCRYPTION SCHEME USING GEOMETRIC OBJECTS BASED KERNELijcsit
The wide use of digital images and videos in various applications warrant serious attention to the security and privacy issues today. Several encryption techniques have been proposed in recent years as feasible solutions to the protection of digital images and videos. In many applications, such as pay-per-view videos,pay-TV and video on demand, one of the required features is that the quality of the video data be degraded only partially by some encryption technique and the encrypted data must still be partially perceptible. This feature referred to as ‘Perceptual encryption’ is the encryption algorithm that degrades the quality of media content according to security or quality requirements. In this work we propose a simple yet efficient technique for realizing perceptual encryption using geometric objects as kernels based on which the pixels are permuted. Confusion aspect that is required is realized by inserting the kernel on the image and thereby performing transposition of pixels based on the kernel formed out of geometric objects. The various parameters of geometric objects, number of objects and the position of the objects/kernel in the image are used as the key for encryption and later on for decryption. Further a choice of quality of the image required i.e., different levels of degradation is provided by adjusting the above parameters of the objects/kernel.From the results obtained it is evident that the proposed method which is more apt for perceptual encryption can also be used effectively for full image encryption with acceptable level of security.
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learning and mining. In the approach provide two algorithms: the Nearest-Neighbors (NN) and determiner
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scheme is based on watermarking. Watermarking methodology preserves the distance
relationships.
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High Capacity and Security Steganography Using Discrete Wavelet TransformCSCJournals
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A SECURE COLOR IMAGE STEGANOGRAPHY IN TRANSFORM DOMAINijcisjournal
Steganography is the art and science of covert communication. The secret information can be concealed in content such as image, audio, or video. This paper provides a novel image steganography technique to hide both image and key in color cover image using Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT). There is no visual difference between the stego image and the cover image. The extracted image is also similar to the secret image. This is proved by the high PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio), value for both stego and extracted secret image. The results are compared with the results of similar techniques and it is found that the proposed technique is simple and gives better PSNR values than others.
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A NOVEL IMAGE STEGANOGRAPHY APPROACH USING MULTI-LAYERS DCT FEATURES BASED ON...ijma
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using Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) features based on linear Support Vector Machine (SVM)
classifier. The DCT features are used to decrease the image redundant information. Moreover, DCT is
used to embed the secrete message based on the least significant bits of the RGB. Each bit in the cover
image is changed only to the extent that is not seen by the eyes of human. The SVM used as a classifier to
speed up the hiding process via the DCT features. The proposed method is implemented and the results
show significant improvements. In addition, the performance analysis is calculated based on the
parameters MSE, PSNR, NC, processing time, capacity, and robustness.
An image steganography using improved hyper-chaotic Henon map and fractal Tro...IJECEIAES
Steganography is a vital security approach that hides any secret content within ordinary data, such as multimedia. First, the cover image is converted into a wavelet environment using the integer wavelet transform (IWT), which protects the cover images from false mistakes. The grey wolf optimizer (GWO) is used to choose the pixel’s image that would be utilized to insert the hidden image in the cover image. GWO effectively selects pixels by calculating entropy, pixel intensity, and fitness function using the cover images. Moreover, the secret image was encrypted by utilizing a proposed hyper-chaotic improved Henon map and fractal Tromino. The suggested method increases computational security and efficiency with increased embedding capacity. Following the embedding algorithm of the secret image and the alteration of the cover image, the least significant bit (LSB) is utilized to locate the tempered region and to provide self-recovery characteristics in the digital image. According to the findings, the proposed technique provides a more secure transmission network with lower complexity in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), normalized cross correlation (NCC), structural similarity index (SSIM), entropy and mean square error (MSE). As compared to the current approaches, the proposed method performed better in terms of PSNR 70.58% Db and SSIM 0.999 respectively.
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An ideal steganographic scheme in networks using twisted payloadeSAT Journals
Abstract With the rapid development of network technology, information security has become a mounting problem. Steganography involves hiding information in a cover media, in such a way that the cover media is not supposed to have any confidential message for its unintentional addressee In this paper, an ideal steganographic scheme in networks is proposed using twisted payload. The confidential image values are twisted by using scrambling techiques.The Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is applied on cover image and Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT) is applied to the scrambled confidential image. Merge operation is done on both images and Inverse DWT is computed on the same to get the stego image. The information hiding algorithm is the reverse process of the extracting algorithm. After this an ideal steganographic scheme is applied which generates a stego image which is immune against conventional attack and performs good perceptibility compared to other steganographic approaches. Index Terms: Network security, Steganography, Discrete Wavelet Transform, Integer Wavelet Transform, Modified Arnold Transform, Merge Operation, Quality Measures
This document describes a steganographic method based on integer wavelet transform and genetic algorithm. The proposed method embeds secret messages into the integer wavelet transform coefficients of images. A genetic algorithm is used to generate an optimal mapping function for embedding bits into coefficients in 8x8 blocks. After embedding, an optimal pixel adjustment process is applied to minimize differences between the original and embedded images. Experimental results on Lena and Baboon images show the proposed method achieves higher data hiding capacity and PSNR values than previous related work.
IRJET - Steganography based on Discrete Wavelet TransformIRJET Journal
This document presents a study on using discrete wavelet transform (DWT) for image steganography. DWT is applied to both the cover image and secret image. The secret image is embedded into the wavelet coefficients of the cover image. Arnold transformation and a private key are used to further encrypt the secret image for increased security. Experimental results on test images show that the proposed method achieves good visual quality for the stego-image, with PSNR values exceeding 36 dB. The method can hide secret data in both color and grayscale images. Future work may explore using different wavelet transforms or encryption techniques.
A Survey Paper On Different Steganography TechniqueJeff Brooks
This document summarizes a survey paper on different steganography techniques. It begins by defining steganography and its types such as linguistic, image, network, video, audio, and text steganography. It then focuses on least significant bit (LSB) steganography, explaining how it works by replacing the LSB of image pixel values with secret message bits. The paper compares the histograms of cover and stego images, showing they are almost identical. It discusses the advantages of steganography and concludes by analyzing steganography methods and suggesting areas for future work such as increasing embedding capacity while maintaining secrecy.
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Image Steganography Using HBC and RDH TechniqueEditor IJCATR
There are algorithms in existence for hiding data within an image. The proposed scheme treats the image as a whole. Here
Integer Cosine Transform (ICT) and Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT) is combined for converting signal to frequency. Hide Behind
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proceeds once when all the corners are unlocked with proper secret keys. With these methods the performance of the stegnographic
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A new image steganography algorithm basedIJNSA Journal
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introduces strongly to hide information and to communicate a secret data in an appropriate multimedia
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Steganography using Coefficient Replacement and Adaptive Scaling based on DTCWT
1. N Sathisha, K Suresh Babu, K B Raja & K R Venugopal
International Journal of Image Processing (IJIP), Volume (9) : Issue (2) : 2015 41
Steganography using Coefficient Replacement and Adaptive
Scaling based on DTCWT
N Sathisha nsathisha@gmail.com
Department of ECE,
Govt. S K S J Technological Institute,
Bangalore, India.
K Suresh Babu ksb1559@gmail.com
Department of ECE,
University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering,
Bangalore, India.
K B Raja raja_kb@yahoo.com
Department of ECE,
University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering,
Bangalore, India.
K R Venugopal venugopalkr@gmail.com
Principal,
University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering,
Bangalore, India.
Abstract
Steganography is an authenticated technique for maintaining secrecy of embedded data.
Steganography provides hardness of detecting the hidden data and has a potential capacity to
hide the existence of confidential data. In this paper, we propose a novel steganography using
coefficient replacement and adaptive scaling based on Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform
(DTCWT) technique. The DTCWT and LWT 2 is applied on cover image and payload respectively
to convert spatial domain into transform domain. The HH sub band coefficients of cover image
are replaced by the LL sub band coefficients of payload to generate intermediate stego object
and the adaptive scaling factor is used to scale down intermediate stego object coefficient values
to generate final stego object. The adaptive scaling factor is determined based on entropy of
cover image. The security and the capacity of the proposed method are high compared to the
existing algorithms.
Keywords: Steganography, DTCWT, LWT, Stego Image, Cover Image, Adaptive Scaling,
Entropy.
1. INTRODUCTION
Enormous growth of high speed computer networks and internet communication leads to
increase in demand of data security systems. The various data hiding techniques for providing
security to the confidential information are cryptography, watermarking and steganography.
Cryptography scrambles the data to prevent the attacker from understanding the contents.
Watermarking is to hide signal into host signal for marking the host signal to be one’s legal
property. Steganography is the technique of embedding confidential information in a carrier
medium the carrier medium can be images, audio, video and text files. Digital images are the
most commonly used carrier media used for steganography. The Graphics Interchange Format
(GIF), Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) format and Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
2. N Sathisha, K Suresh Babu, K B Raja & K R Venugopal
International Journal of Image Processing (IJIP), Volume (9) : Issue (2) : 2015 42
formats are the most popular image file formats being used for images shared on internet.
Steganographic techniques which are used to modify image files for hiding information includes
spatial domain technique, transform domain technique, spread spectrum technique, adaptive
technique, statistical methods and distortion techniques. In spatial domain technique, the secret
messages are embedded directly. The most common and simplest steganography method is the
Least Significant Bit (LSB) insertion method. In the LSB technique the LSB bits of the cover
image pixels are replaced by the secret information message bits which are permuted before
embedding. A basic classification of spatial domain steganographic algorithms are (i) non filtering
algorithm (ii) randomised algorithms and (iii) filtering algorithms. In transform domain technique
the cover image is converted into transform domain by applying transformation such as Discrete
Cosine Transform (DCT), Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT),
Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) etc., and then embedding of
confidential information into these transformed coefficients of the cover image. The wavelet
transform separates the high frequency and low frequency information on a pixel by pixel basis.
DWT is preferred over DCT because image in low frequency at various levels can offer high
resolution. The DWT is decomposed into Approximation band (LL), vertical band (LH), horizontal
band (HL) and diagonal detail band (HH). The approximation band consists of low frequency
wavelet coefficients which contain significant part of the spatial domain image. The other bands
also called as detail bands consists of high frequency coefficients which contains the insignificant
part and edge details of the spatial domain image. DWT will allow independent processing
without significant perceptible interaction between them and hence making the process
imperceptibility with more effective. Applications of steganography are in digital copy right
protection, digital media content surveillance, content authentication and covert communication
involving industries like e-pressing, e-government, e-business etc.,
Contributions: In this paper steganography using coefficient replacement and adaptive scaling
based on DTCWT technique is proposed. The DTCWT and LWT are applied on cover and
payload images respectively. The HH coefficients of DTCWT are replaced completely by LL
coefficients of LWT to generate intermediate stego object. The coefficient of intermediate stego
object is scaled down by scaling factors based on the entropy of cover image to generate final
stego object. The stego image is obtained by using IDTCWT on final stego object.
2. RELATED WORK
Rigdas and Themrichon Tuithung [1] proposed a Huffman encoding steganography. The Huffman
encoding is applied on secret image and each bit of Huffman code of secret image is embedded
into the cover image altering the LSB of each cover image pixel. Najeena and Imran [2] presented
a steganographic and cryptographic technique based on chaotic encryption with adaptive pixel
pair matching. The scrambled data is embedded into the cover media based on pixel pair
matching technique. The cover pixel pairs are changed randomly by using keys to increase the
security level of the system. Ran-zan wang and Yeh-shun chen [3] presented a steganography
technique based on two way block matching procedure. The block matching procedure search for
the highest similarity block from a series of blocks generated from the cover image and embeds
the secret information in imperceptible areas of the cover image. The hop embedded scheme is
used which resulted in high quality of stego image and extracted secret image. This method
exhibits high payload embedding. Vojtech holub and Jessica fridrich [4] developed an adaptive
steganographic distortion function a bank of directional high pass filters is employed to obtain the
directional residuals. The impact of embedding on the every directional residual is measured. The
embedding is done on smooth areas along edges and noisy areas. Baolong Guo et al., [5]
proposed robust image watermarking schemes based on the mean quantization using DTCWT.
The energy map of the original image is first composed from the six high frequency sub bands of
DTCWT and the watermark is embedded into the high energy pixels. The two schemes embed
the watermark into the high frequency and low frequency DTCWT coefficients by quantizing.
Ajit danti and Manjula [6] proposed an image steganography using DWT and hybrid wavelet
transform. The cover and secret images are normalized and the wavelet coefficients are obtained
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by applying DWT. The wavelet coefficients of both the cover and secret images are fused into
single image. Jani Anbarasi and kannan [7] have developed a secure steganographic system for
secret color image sharing with reversible characteristics. The secret color image pixels are
transformed into M-ary notational system. Reversible polynomial function is generated using (t-1)
digits of secret color image pixels and the secret shares are generated using reversible
polynomial function and the participant’s numerical key. The secret image and cover image are
embedded together to construct stego image. Reversible image sharing process is used for
reconstructing secret image and cover image. Secret is obtained by Lagrange’s formula
generated from sufficient secret shares. Quantization process is applied to improve quality of
cover image. Sathya et al., [8] discussed the various techniques for data hiding in audio signal,
video signal, text and JPEG images. The pros and cons of the available techniques are analysed
and proposes a technique based on T-codes. T-codes are used for encoding of original message
and entropy encoding of compressed stego image. After this SB technique is used for embedding
process. T-codes are considered because of its self synchronizing property which increases
robustness of the technique. Zawawi et al., [9] discusses the operation of active warden and how
it is the main hindrance for steganography information retrieval. Active wardens are attackers of
steganography which aims to destroy the possible hidden information within the carrier. If the
objective of the attacker is is to disrupt the communication of hidden information then active
approach will be the preferred method compared to time consuming passive steganalysis
methods. Yang et al., [10] proposed an improved method of image sharing with steganography
for providing authentication to prevent cheating. Manipulation of the stego images are prevented
by using Hash function with secret keys. The authentication is provided by hashing 4 pixel blocks,
block ID and image ID. The quality of both stego image and secret image are improved by a new
arrangement of seventeen bits in the four pixel square block. Chiang- Lung Liu and Shiang-Rong
Liao [11] have developed a high performance steganographic scheme for JPEG using
complementary embedding strategy to avoid detections of several statistical attacks in spatial
domain. Here instead of flipping the LSBs of the DCT coefficients, the secret bits are embedded
in the cover image by subtracting one or adding one to the non zero DCT coefficient and hence
cannot be detected by both Chi square and Extended Chi square attacks. Manjunatha Reddy and
Raja [12] have proposed high capacity and security steganography using DWT technique. The
wavelet coefficients of both the cover and payload are fused into single image using embedding
strength alpha and beta. The cover and payload are preprocessed to reduce pixel range ensuring
accurate recovery of payload at destination.
ShivaKumar et al., [13] have developed hybrid domain in LSB steganography technique which is
an integration of both spatial and transform domain techniques. The cover image and payload is
divided into two cells and cell I is transformed to frequency domain using DCT/DWT/FFT while
maintaining components of cell II in spatial domain itself. Next, the MSB pixels of payload cell I
and cell II are embedded into corresponding cell I and cell II of cover image. Youngran Park et al.,
[14] proposed a method for integrity verification of secret information in image steganography.
The secret information is hidden into spatial domain of digital image and the embedded secret
information is randomly permuted to achieve confidentiality. Integrity of secret information is
verified using DCT coefficients. Xinpeng Zhang and ShouZhang Wang [15] have suggested an
improvement for PVD steganography technique to reduce its vulnerability for histogram analysis
there by providing enhanced security. The method preserves the advantage of low visual
distortion of the PVD. This introduces a pseudo-random dithering to the division of ranges of
PVDs. The Histogram based steganalysis is defeated while preserving embedding capacity and
high invisibility of original PVD. Chin-Chan Chang and Hsian-Wen Tseng [16] have proposed a
steganographic method which provides larger embedding capacity and minimizes the distortion of
stego image. The method exploits the correlation between neighboring pixels to estimate the
degree of smoothness or contrast of pixels and the pixel in the edge area has more data than
those in the non edge areas. Two sided, three sided and four sided match methods are used for
embedding. Manjunatha Reddy and Raja [17] proposed a wavelet based non LSB steganography
technique in which the cover image is segmented into 4*4 cells and DWT/IWT is applied to each
cell. The 2*2 cell of HH band of DWT/IWT are considered and manipulated with payload bit pairs
using identity matrix to generate stego image and the key is used to extract payload bit pairs at
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the destination. The algorithm cannot be detected by steganalysis techniques such as Chi-
square and pair of values techniques.
Shiva Kumar et al., [18] proposed a bit length replacement steganography based on DCT
coefficients where the cover image is segmented into smaller matrix of size 8*8 blocks and
converted into DCT domain by applying 2D-DCT to each block. The MSB bits of payload are
embedded into each DCT coefficients of cover image based on the coherent length ’L’ which is
determined by the DCT coefficient values. K.B. Shiva Kumar et al., [19] proposed a
steganographic technique based on payload transformation which is a non LSB and non
transform domain technique. The cover image is segmented into 2*2 matrices then the matrix for
payload embedding process is obtained based on the threshold value fixed by adjacent pixel
intensity differences. The transformation matrix is obtained by considering the identity matrix and
the payload bit pair. The stego image matrices of size 2*2 are derived from the 2*2 cover image
matrices and the transformation matrix. Key is generated with first bit payload matrix at sending
end and this is used to extract the payload from stego image.
Manjunatha Reddy and Raja [20] developed wavelet based secure steganography with
scrambled payload. It is a hybrid domain technique. Daubechies Lifting Wavelet Transform (LWT)
is applied on the cover image whose XD band is decomposed into upper and lower bands for
payload embedding. The payload is segmented into four blocks and Haar LWT is applied on
alternate blocks of payload to generate F1 and F2 wavelet transform bands. The remaining
blocks of payload are retained in spatial domain say S1 and S2. Then, bit reversal is applied on
each coefficient of payload blocks to scramble payload and cube root is applied on these
scrambled values to scale down the number of coefficient bits. The payload is embedded into XD
band of cover image to obtain stego image. Arnab Kumar Maji et al., [21] proposed a
steganographic scheme using Sudoku puzzle. An 18 x 18 Sudoku reference matrix is used for
message embedding and 8 x 8 Sudoku is embedded into the cover image to detect whether
cover image is modified or not. The secret information is embedded inside the cover image using
18 x 18 Sudoku reference matrix. In the proposed work an 18 x 18 Sudoku reference matrix is
used instead of 256 x 256 or 27 x 27 reference matrix. Rashedul islam et al., [22] proposed a
steganography technique to hide large data in bit map image using filtering based algorithm. The
secret message is converted into cipher text using AES cryptography and the cipher text is
embedded into the cover image. The method uses the concept of status checking for insertion
and retrieval of message. Chi Yuan Lin et al., [23] presented a steganographic system for Vector
Quantization (VQ) code books using section based informed embedding. The Fuzzy Competitive
Learning Network (FCLN) clustering technology generate optimal code book for VQ. The VQ
code book of secret image information is embedded into the cover image by a section based
informed embedding scheme.
3. PROPOSED MODEL
In this section definitions of evaluation parameters and block diagram of proposed model are
discussed.
3.1 Definitions
I Mean Square Error (MSE): It is defined as the square of error between two images and is
calculated using Equation 1.
( )
2
11
2
1
∑∑ ==
−
=
N
j
ijji
N
i
XX
N
MSE (1)
Where N: Size of the image.
ijX : The value of the pixel intensity in the cover image/original payload.
ijX : The value of the pixel in the stego image/extracted payload.
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II Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR): It is the measure of quality of the image by comparing
two images, i.e. it measures the percentage of the stegano data to the image percentage.
PSNR is calculated using Equation 2.
PSNR = 20log10 (255/ MSE) dB (2)
III Capacity: It is the size of the data in a cover image that can be modified without deteriorating
the integrity of the cover image. The steganographic embedding operation needs to preserve
the statistical properties of the cover image in addition to its perceptual quality. The
percentage of Hiding Capacity is given in Equation 3.
Hiding Capacity = (Pij / Cij) *100 (3)
Where, Pij is the payload image dimensions,
Cij is the cover image dimensions.
3.2 Proposed Embedding Model
In the proposed method, the concept of Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform is used to
transform the cover image into low and high frequency sub bands. The payload is transformed
into frequency domain using lifting wavelet transformation. The approximation band coefficients of
payload are embedded into coefficients of high frequency sub bands of cover image to generate
stego image based on the entropy of cover image and scaling factor. The block diagram of the
proposed embedding model is as shown in Figure 1.
FIGURE 1: Embedding Model of Proposed Algorithm.
Cover Image
DTCWT
High Frequency
Sub band (HH)
Low Frequency
Sub bands (LL)
Entropy
ε = 0
SF= PLM/2 SF=16
Yes No
Payload
LWT2
LL Sub band
Stego Image
Embedding
Intermediate Stego
object
Scaling
Final Stego object
IDTCWT
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3.2.1 Cover image (CI): The cover image of any size and format is considered to test the
performance analysis. The cover image is resized to a square matrix dimensions to embed
payload for better performance.
3.2.2 Payload: The secret image to be transmitted is embedded into cover image to generate a
stego image. The payload may be of any format and of size less than or equal to cover image.
3.2.3 Lifted Wavelet Transform 2 [24]: The main feature of the lifting scheme is that all
constructions are derived in the spatial domain. It does not require complex mathematical
calculations that are required in traditional methods. Lifting scheme is simplest and efficient
algorithm to calculate wavelet transforms. It does not depend on Fourier transforms. Lifting
scheme is used to generate second-generation wavelets, which are not necessarily translation
and dilation of one particular function. The lifting scheme of wavelet transform has the following
advantages over conventional wavelet transform technique. (i) It allows a faster implementation of
the wavelet transform. It requires half number of computations as compare to traditional
convolution based discrete wavelet transform. This is very attractive for real time low power
applications. (ii) The lifting scheme allows a fully in-place calculation of the wavelet transform. In
other words, no auxiliary memory is needed and the original signal can be replaced with its
wavelet transform. (iii) Lifting scheme allows us to implement reversible integer wavelet
transforms. In conventional scheme it involves floating point operations, which introduces
rounding errors due to floating point arithmetic.
Constructing wavelets using lifting scheme consists of (i) Split phase (ii) Predict phase (iii) update
phase as shown in Figure 2
FIGURE 2: Lifting Scheme Implementation.
The first step in the lifting scheme is to separate the original sequence (X) into two sub
sequences containing odd indexed samples and even indexed samples. This sub sampling is
called as lazy wavelet transform
The prediction phase is also called dual lifting (P). This is performed on the two sequences Xo
and Xe which are highly correlated. Hence, the predictor P can be used to predict one set from
the other. In this step the odd sample are predicted using the neighboring even indexed samples
and the prediction error is recorded replacing the original sample value, thus providing in- place
calculations.
Where,
N = number of vanishing moments in d. this sets the smoothness of the P function.
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Update phase is the second lifting step also called as primal lifting (U). Here the even samples
are replaced with smoothed values using update operator (U) on previously computed details.
The U operator is designed to maintain the correct running average of the original sequence, to
avoid aliasing.
Where,
is the number of real vanishing moments
The U operator preserves the first moments in the S sequence, The lazy wavelet is lifted to a
transform with required properties by applying dual and primal lifting pair of operations one or
more times. Finally, the output streams are normalized using the normalizing factor K.
The output from the S channel after the dual lifting step provides a low pass filtered version of the
input, where as the output from the d channel after the dual lifting steps provide the high pass
filtered version of the input. The inverse transform is obtained by reversing the order and sign of
the operations performed in the forward transform.
The LWT 2 is applied on resized Payload to transform from spatial domain to wavelet domain
bands such as Approximation band (LL), Horizontal band (LH), Vertical band (HL) and Diagonal
band (HH). The LL band has significant information hence coefficients of LL band is embedded
into high frequency sub bands of cover image.
3.2.4 Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform [25]: A recent enhancement to DWT with additional,
directionality properties. It is an effective approach for implementing an analytic wavelet
transform. This is nearly shift invariant and directionally selective in two and higher dimensions
this is achieved with a redundancy factor of only for d-dimensional signals, which is
comparatively lower than the undecimated DWT. The idea behind dual tree approach is that it
employs two real DWT in its structure. The first DWT gives the real part of the transform and
second part gives the imaginary part. The two real wavelet transforms use two different sets of
filters, with each satisfying the perfect reconstruction conditions. The two sets of filters are jointly
designed so that the overall transform is approximately analytic. The analysis Filter banks used in
DTCWT are shown in Figure 3.
FIGURE 3: Analysis filter bank structure of DTCWT.
2
2
2
2
TREE 1
TREE 2
Level 1
CI
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Let , denote the low-pass and high-pass filter pair for the upper filter bank that is filter
bank of tree 1, and let , denote the low-pass and high-pass filter pair for the lower
Filter Bank that is filter bank of tree 2. The two real wavelets associated with each of the two real
wavelet transforms are denoted as and . In addition to satisfying the perfect
reconstruction conditions, the filters are designed so that the complex wavelet shown in Equation
4 is approximately analytic.
+j (4)
Equivalently, they are designed so that is approximately the Hilbert transform of as
shown in Equation 5.
(5)
The implementation of the DTCWT does not require complex arithmetic because filters are
themselves real. DTCWT is not a critically sampled transform; it is two times expansive in 1-D
because the total output data rate is exactly twice the input data rate. The dual tree CWT is also
easy to implement because there is no data flow between the two real DWTs, the transform is
naturally parallelized for efficient implementation however, the dual tree CWT requires the design
of new filters. Primarily, it requires a pair of filter sets chosen so that the corresponding wavelets
form an approximate Hilbert transform pair. Existing filters for wavelet transforms should not be
used to implement both the trees of the dual tree CWT. If the dual tree wavelet transform is
implemented with filters not satisfying this requirement, then the transform will not provide the full
advantages of analytic wavelets.
In the proposed technique a single level of DTCWT is applied to the cover image which gives 12
high frequency sub-bands and 4 low frequency sub bands, only the high frequency sub bands
which forms the real part is suitable for embedding as it gives good retrieval quality of the payload
without any perceptive degradation to the stego image. In the proposed technique one of high
frequency sub band with negligible randomness is selected for embedding. Referring to the
Figure 3 the formation of sub-bands in DTCWT can be analyzed as follows (i) The use of filters of
Tree 1 alone in both the dimensions that is along rows and columns gives four sub-bands namely
LL, LH, HL and HH (ii) The use of filters of Tree 1 along the rows and Tree 2 filters along the
columns produces another set of four sub-bands namely LL, HL, LH and HH. (iii) In another
combination the filters of Tree 2 are used along the rows and the filters of Tree1 are used along
the column to produce yet another set of sub bands namely LL, HL, LH and HH. (iv) finally, the
use of Filters of Tree 2 alone in both the dimensions that is along rows and columns produces
another set of sub-bands LL, HL, LH and HH.
Thus, a single level of DTCWT when applied to the cover image gives totally 16 frequency sub-
bands out of which 4 are LL bands and 12 high frequency sub-bands.
3.2.5 Embedding: The new concept of embedding is used in the proposed model. Here, the
chosen high frequency sub band coefficient of the transformed cover image is completely
replaced by the LL band coefficient of the payload image. Since coefficients of high frequency
sub band of the image are replaced it does not result in the perceptive degradation of the stego
image. The use of coefficient replacement method of embedding also gives good retrieval quality
of the payload at the receiver end.
3.2.6 Scaling: Scaling operation at the sender end is performed by dividing all the coefficients of
the intermediate stego object by a scaling factor. Since the LL sub band coefficients of payload
completely replaces the high frequency sub band coefficients of the cover image, only two HH
sub bands from real part of DTCWT are used for embedding to get better stego image quality and
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also to get perceptively good extracted payload at the destination. The coefficients of two HH sub
bands are totally replaced by LL sub band coefficients of payload to generate final stego object.
scaling has to be performed to restore the regular pattern of the DTCWT coefficients so that all
the high frequency coefficients will have smaller values their by giving fewer chances for
suspicion. If only the band in which embedding is done is scaled then only that particular band will
show a different pattern of coefficients hence all the high frequency sub bands are scaled so that
all of them look almost similar thereby avoiding suspicion. The scaling also improves the security
of the payload in the stego image.
3.2.7 Entropy: Entropy [26] is a statistical measure of randomness that can be used to
characterize the texture of the image. An image X of size M*N can be considered as a system
with ‘L’ pixel intensity scales. For example, a 8-bit gray image allows L = 256 gray scales from 0
to 255. The probability of i
th
pixel is given by Equation 6.
(6)
Where, X = image of size M*N
l= intensity levels varies from 0 to 255 for gray scale image
N(l)= No. of pixels with intensity values l
Then the entropy of an image is given by Equation 7
(7)
The image entropy is a quantitative measurement of where l varies from 0 to 255. It is
equivalent to the histogram analysis, which plots the distribution of and is commonly used for
security analysis
3.2.8 Scaling Factor: the scaling factor is chosen based on the entropy of cover image.
Case (i): When the Entropy of Cover Image ε =0
When the entropy of cover image is zero the scaling factor is chosen to be half the mean value of
payload pixel intensity. When this Scaling Factor is used the technique gives good PSNR along
with good zero it implies that the randomness of CI is zero hence a high scaling factor can be
used as shown in Equation 8
(8)
When Scaling Factor is high the Euclidean distance between the Cover image and stego image is
small that is both the images are nearly similar thus giving perceptively good retrieved payload.
Case (ii): When the Entropy of Cover Image ε ≠ 0 in this case when the cover image has
randomness a different scaling factor has to be chosen as the stego image will also have
randomness. The scaling factor is decided based on the observations by trial and error method
where the technique is checked with different formats of image for different scaling factors. It is
observed that the scaling factor is independent of the cover image format used hence the same
scaling factor can be used for all the formats of cover image. From Table 1 it can be observed
that choosing smaller scaling factors in the range 2-10 gives poor stego quality, lesser PSNR but
good payload retrieval because the Euclidean Distance (ED) between the intermediate stego
object bands before and after transmission is very large. While, Scaling Factor above 15 gives
good PSNR, stego quality and retrieval quality but as scaling factor increases the perceptive
quality of the retrieved payload becomes poor hence as a trade off to obtain good stego image
with good PSNR and good quality of retrieved payload the scaling factor in this case is fixed at
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16. Also the histogram pattern of cover image and Stego image are checked for different scaling
factors and it is observed that for the scaling factor fixed there is no significant variation in the
histogram pattern but smaller scaling factors show significant difference in the pattern
Table 1: Scaling Factor Selection.
Scaling Factor PSNR(dB) PSNR1(dB) ED Observations
[2-10] Decreases
<30 dB
Increases
>40 dB
Higher
Stego Quality- Poor
Retrieval Quality- good
PSNR- Low
Histogram-significant
15
37.3831 32.0704 403.563
Stego Quality – good
Retrieval Quality- good
PSNR- Good
Histogram- insignificant
16
39.3631 36.1902 300.265
[32 and above] Increases
>40 dB
Decreases
<30 dB
Lesser
Stego Quality – good
Retrieval Quality- Poor
PSNR- Good
Histogram-insignificant
Hence the scaling factors used for the proposed techniques are chosen based on the entropy of
cover image. Scaling Factor (SF) summarized as shown in Equation 9.
(9)
3.2.9 Key: the scaling factor values are used as keys which are embedded in HH sub bands to
retrieve payload at the destination.
3.2.10 Stego object: The intermediate stego object after performing scaling operation is referred
to as stego object. The stego object is the transform domain version of the stego image which will
be transmitted through the channel for communication.
3.2.11 Inverse Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (IDTCWT): The inverse of the DTCWT is
as simple as the forward transform. To invert the transform, the real part and the imaginary part
are each inverted, the inverse of each of the two real DWTs are used, to obtain two real signals.
These two real signals are then averaged to obtain the final output. The original signal can also
be obtained from either real part or imaginary part alone however, such inverse DTCWTs do not
capture all the advantages an analytic wavelet transform offers. IDCTWT is applied on the stego
object to generate Stego Image (SI).
3.3 Proposed Extraction Model
In this section the proposed extraction model has been discussed and is shown in Figure 4.
DTCWT is applied on the stego image to extract the high frequency sub bands where the LL sub
band of payload embedded in the embedding module. The entropy of stego image is calculated.
The scaling factor is fixed at PLM/2 if entropy of stego image is zero else scaling factor is fixed at
16. The coefficients of HH sub band are scaled by multiplying appropriate scaling factors based
on entropy of stego image to obtain payload coefficients in wavelet domain. The ILWT2 is applied
on payload coefficients to obtain the payload in spatial domain.
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FIGURE 4: Block Diagram of the proposed retrieval model.
4. ALGORITHM
Problem definition: The secret image is embedded into cover image in transform domain using
DTCWT technique. In the proposed approach, the new concept to generate stego image is used
by replacing the high frequency sub band coefficients of cover image by the approximation band
coefficients of the payload.
Assumptions:
(i) The cover and payload objects are gray scale images with different dimensions.
(ii) The stego image is transmitted over an ideal channel.
TABLE 2: Embedding Algorithm of Proposed Model.
Input: Cover image, payload,
Output: Stego image
1. Cover image and Payload image of different formats and sizes are considered
2. Resize CI to 2
m
x2
m
to apply DTCWT, where m is an integer.
3. Apply one Level DTCWT on the CI
4. Apply one level LWT2 on Payload image
5. The high frequency sub band coefficients of cover image are replaced by LL sub band
coefficients of payload in embedding block to generate a stego object.
6. Entropy of cover image is calculated
7. The scaling factor of PLM/2 is fixed if entropy is zero else scaling factor is fixed at 16.
8. The coefficients of intermediate stego object are divided by the appropriate values of
scaling factor.
9. The final stego object is generated by scaled intermediate stego object and low
frequency sub bands of cover image.
10. Stego image in spatial domain is obtained by applying IDTCWT on the final stego object.
Entropy
ε = 0
SF= PLM/2
SF=16
DTCWT
High Frequency Sub
bands (HH)
Payload
Coefficients
Scaling
ILWT 2
Stego Image
Payload Image
Yes No
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The algorithm of embedding model is discussed in Table 2. The DTCWT and LWT2 are applied
on cover image and payload image respectively. The high frequency coefficients of cover image
are replaced by LL sub band coefficients of payload. The retrieving algorithm is described in
Table 3 to extract payload from stego image by adapting reverse process of embedding.
TABLE 3: Retrieving Algorithm.
Input: Stego image
Output: Payload
1. Apply single level DTCWT on the stego image to obtain higher frequency HH sub
bands.
2. Entropy of Stego image is computed to fix scaling factor.
3. Scaling factor is PLM/2 if entropy is zero otherwise scaling factor is 16.
4. The high frequency sub band coefficients of DTCWT are multiplied by appropriate
scaling factor values to generate payload coefficients.
5. The ILWT2 is applied on payload coefficients to generate payload image in spatial
domain.
5. PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
(i) Histogram Comparison: The payload image Lena.Jpg of size 512 x 512 is embedded into the
cover image mandril.Jpg of size 512 x 512 to generate stego image is shown in the Figure 5
using proposed steganographic algorithm.
(a) Cover image (b) Payload (c) Stego Image (d) Retrieved payload
FIGURE 5: (a) CI: Mandril (512*512) (b) PL: Lena (512*512) (c) Stego Image (512*512) (d) Retrieved
payload (512*512).
The histograms of cover image and stego image are shown in Figure 6 the patterns of cover
image and stego image histograms are almost same which indicates the statistical properties of
stego image are not varied compare to original cover image
a) Cover image b) Stego image
FIGURE 6: (a) Histogram of CI (b) Histogram of SI.
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(ii) Performance Parameters of Proposed Algorithm for different image formats and hiding
capacity
The different cover and payload images used to test performance of the proposed algorithm are
shown in Figure 7.
(a)Audrey (b) Peppers c) Lifting body (d) Boat
(e) Barbara (f) Ranch (g) Cameraman (h) Circuit
FIGURE 7: Images used as cover and payload with different formats
TABLE 4: Performance Parameters for Different Image Formats With 100% Hiding Capacity.
Cover image
(512*512)
Payload
(512*512)
(PSNR(CI&
SI))
(PSNR(PL&EPL)) Entropy
(CI)
Entropy
(SI)
Mandril.jpg lena.tif 42.9421 36.9712 0 0
audrey.Jpg 42.9096 37.2117 0 0
ranch.bmp 42.9505 35.3612 0 0
liftingbody.Png 43.0296 37.4578 0 0
Audrey.jpg lena.tif 41.5943 42.2837 0.0058 0.0014
barbara.jpg 41.6521 38.7104 0.0058 0.00051
ranch.bmp 41.77 37.2746 0.0058 0
liftingbody.png 41.724 35.2302 0.0058 0.000518
circuit.tif lena.tif 39.8503 36.9188 0 0
barbara.jpg 39.8570 30.8117 0 0
ranch.bmp 39.8472 35.3104 0 0
liftingbody.png 39.8809 37.3862 0 0
Mandril.tif lena.tif 32.3845 29.5074 0.000074 0.00072
barbara.Jpg 32.4569 29.5074 0.000074 0.00317
ranch.bmp 32.2646 27.3367 0.000074 0.00074
liftingbody.png 32.1867 27.2270 0.000074 0.0420
Liftingbody.png lena.tif 36.7624 37.7115 0.0014 0.0036
barbara.jpg 35.4529 29.7459 0.0014 0.0018
pirate.bmp 35.8598 31.4215 0.0014 0.000518
mandril.png 35.08596 27.5279 0.0014 0.0051
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The cover and payload images are converted into transform domain and the payload is
embedded into the cover to derive the stego image. The payload is retrieved from stego image
using reverse embedding process at the destination. The performance parameters such as PSNR
between cover image and stego image PSNR (CI& SI), PSNR between payload & Extracted
payload (PSNR (PL&EPL)), entropy of cover image (CI) and entropy of stego image (SI) with
hundred percent hiding capacity are tabulated in Table 4. The PSNR between cover and stego
image is almost constant irrespective of payload image formats. The value of PSNR between the
cover and stego image depends on the cover image format and also entropy of cover image. The
PSNR between cover and stego image is little high when the entropy is zero compare to entropy
of non zero value, since scaling factor is high in the case of entropy zero compared to lower
scaling factor for non zero entropy value. The values of PSNR are high in the case of JPG image
format of the cover image compare to Tiff, PNG and Bmp formats of cover image.
The performance parameters such as PSNR between cover image and stego image PSNR (CI&
SI), PSNR between payload & Extracted payload PSNR (PL&EPL), entropy of cover image (CI)
and entropy of stego image (SI) with seventy five percent hiding capacity are tabulated in Table 5
TABLE 5: Performance Parameters for Different Image Formats With 75% Hiding Capacity.
Cover image
(512*512)
Payload
(512*384)
PSNR (CI& SI) PSNR(PL&EPL) Entropy
(CI)
Entropy
(SI)
Mandril.jpg lena.tif 43.2743 37.1437 0 0
audrey.Jpg 43.1747 42.3191 0 0
ranch.bmp 43.3095 35.4160 0 0
liftingbody.Png 43.3713 37.4115 0 0
Audrey.jpg lena.tif 41.9756 36.9878 0.0058 0.0042
barbara.jpg 41.8893 42.3596 0.0058 0.0020
ranch.bmp 41.9995 35.2554 0.0058 0.0094
liftingbody.png 42.0413 37.1860 0.0058 0.0034
circuit.tif lena.tif 40.0347 30.7472 0 0
barbara.jpg 40.0230 36.8722 0 0
ranch.bmp 40.0276 35.3737 0 0
liftingbody.png 40.0523 37.3488 0 0
Mandril.tif lena.tif 32.7592 33.2747 0.000074 0.0365
barbara.Jpg 33.2413 37.3500 0.000074 0.0848
ranch.bmp 33.7029 30.8545 0.000074 0.0235
liftingbody.png 32.5427 30.2076 0.000074 0.0081
Liftingbody
.png
lena.tif 36.0756 30.7044 0.0014 0.0034
barbara.jpg 37.1842 37.6696 0.0014 0.0049
pirate.bmp 35.7648 30.5444 0.0014 0.00096
peppers.png 36.4326 31.4281 0.0014 0.00034
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The performance parameters such as PSNR between cover image and stego image PSNR (CI&
SI), PSNR between payload & Extracted payload PSNR (PL&EPL), entropy of cover image (CI)
and entropy of stego image (SI) with fifty percent hiding capacity are tabulated in Table 6 The
performance parameters such as PSNR between cover image and stego image PSNR (CI& SI),
PSNR between payload & Extracted payload PSNR (PL&EPL), entropy of cover image (CI) and
entropy of stego image (SI) with twenty five percent hiding capacity are tabulated in Table 7
TABLE 6: Performance Parameters for Different Image Formats With 50% Hiding Capacity.
Cover image
(512*512)
Payload
(512*256)
PSNR(CI&
SI)
(PSNR(PL&EPL)) Entropy
(CI)
Entropy
(SI)
Mandril.jpg lena.tif 43.6027 42.1814 0 0
audrey.Jpg 43.6764 37.0397 0 0
ranch.bmp 43.7017 35.5876 0 0
liftingbody.Png 43.7466 37.3530 0 0
Audrey.jpg lena.tif 42.2057 36.9101 0.0058 0.0071
barbara.jpg 42.2649 42.0915 0.0058 0.00097
ranch.bmp 42.2865 35.4492 0.0058 0.0030
liftingbody.png 42.3165 371642 0.0058 0.0062
circuit.tif lena.tif 40.2101 36.7554 0 0
barbara.jpg 40.2019 37.0028 0 0
ranch.bmp 40.2115 35.5477 0 0
liftingbody.png 40.2292 37.3008 0 0
Mandril.tif lena.tif 33.4252 35.4106 0.000074 0.0308
barbara.Jpg 33.0838 37.0545 0.000074 0.0950
ranch.bmp 32.9752 30.4197 0.000074 0.0149
liftingbody.png 33.9277 30.4724 0.000074 0.0018
Liftingbody.png lena.tif 37.6512 30.6509 0.0014 0.0022
barbara.jpg 36.8103 37.5773 0.0014 0.0044
pirate.bmp 36.5643 30.6171 0.0014 0.0014
mandril.png 37.0894 31.4623 0.0014 0.0021
Ranch.bmp lena.tif 36.1504 30.4790 0.0005 0.0102
barbara.jpg 38.2569 37.2016 0.0005 0.0067
pirate.bmp 36.1139 32.8101 0.0005 0.0171
liftingbody.png 36.0994 31.2288 0.0005 0.0054
The performance parameters PSNR (CI & SI) and varies between PSNR (PL & EPL) are
tabulated in Table 8 for different percentage capacities with cover and payload images having
JPG formats. The values of PSNR (CI & SI) are almost constant for percentage hiding capacities
between 25 and 100. The variations of PSNR (CI & SI) and percentage hiding capacity are
plotted in the Figure 8 as the percentage hiding capacity increases from 25 to 100, the values of
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PSNR (CI & SI) varies between 44.43 and 43. 91 ie., the PSNR values are almost constant with
capacity.
TABLE 7: PSNR Performance Parameters for Different Image Formats With 25% Hiding Capacity.
Cover image
(512*512)
Payload
(256*256)
(PSNR(CI&
SI))
(PSNR(PL&E
PL))
Entropy
(CI)
Entropy
(SI)
Mandril.jpg lena.tif 44.4238 45.7815 0 0
audrey.Jpg 44.4274 41.6053 0 0
ranch.bmp 44.7086 44.427 0 0
liftingbody.Png 44.7086 53.6653 0 0
Audrey.jpg lena.tif 42.7972 44.1040 0.0058 0.0061
barbara.jpg 42.7962 43.501 0.0058 0.00051
ranch.bmp 42.7992 43.0021 0.0058 0.0080
liftingbody.png 42.8008 49.4367 0.0058 0.00047
circuit.tif lena.tif 40.5275 52.7875 0 0
barbara.jpg 40.5256 45.4012 0 0
ranch.bmp 40.5260 44.3152 0 0
liftingbody.png 40.5282 52.592 0 0
Mandril.tif lena.tif 38.6174 36.7372 0.000074 0.0012
barbara.Jpg 36.4341 30.25 0.000074 0.003
ranch.bmp 37.3432 31.653 0.000074 0.0012
liftingbody.png 38.4401 30.2705 0.000074 0.0061
Liftingbody.png lena.tif 37.6172 31.8271 0.0014 0.0013
barbara.jpg 37.6735 30.5944 0.0014 0.0021
pirate.bmp 37.5189 30.6333 0.0014 0.0016
mandril.png 37.8463 31.4820 0.0014 0.0023
Ranch.bmp lena.tif 37.2856 33.0564 0.0005 0.0061
barbara.jpg 38.3256 33.5432 0.0005 0.0016
pirate.bmp 37.4265 32.1544 0.0005 0.0047
liftingbody.png 38.2330 31.2061 0.0005 0.0062
TABLE 8: Performance Analysis of the Proposed Technique for Different Hiding Capacity.
Cover Image
[Mandril.jpg]
Payload Image
[Barbara.jpg]
%Capacity PSNR (CI&SI)
(dB)
PSNR(PL&EPL)
(dB)
512*512 256*256 25 44.4238 45.7815
512*512 512*256 50 43.9852 37.0397
512*512 512*384 75 43.9543 37.1437
512*512 512*512 100 43.9100 36.9712
iii) Comparison of performance parameters of proposed algorithm with existing algorithms.
Table 9 shows the comparison of PSNR (CI& SI)) and percentage Hiding Capacity (HC) of
proposed technique and the existing techniques. The percentage hiding capacities of the
proposed algorithm is 100% with PSNR (CI & SI) varies between 35.79 and 42.94 based on
cover images are compared with existing techniques presented by Hoda Motamedi and Ayyoob
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Jafari [27], Tasnuva Mahajabin et. al., [28] and Ashish Soni et.al.,[29]. It is observed that the
PSNR values and percentage hiding capacity values are higher in the case of proposed algorithm
compare to existing algorithms for the following reasons.
(i)The percentage hiding capacity is 100% since six high frequency sub bands which form the
real are used for embedding payload with good payload retrieval quality at the destination.
(ii) The scaling factor is chosen based on the entropy of the cover image. When the entropy is
zero the scaling factor is high, this reduces the Euclidean distance between the high frequency
sub bands of cover image and stego image, thus giving high PSNR and good retrieval payload
quality.
(iii) The PSNR value does not vary significantly though the capacity is varied because of the high
frequency sub bands which have negligible randomness.
(iv) when the entropy of cover image is non zero then the scaling factor is reduced from higher
value and fixed at 16 to obtain better quality of retrieved payload image at the destination. The
PSNR (CI&SI) is decreased since scaling factor is reduced.
FIGURE 8: variation of PSNR and hiding capacity.
TABLE 9: Comparison of capacity and value of proposed algorithm with the existing algorithms.
Authors Technique
Cover
image
PSNR (CI &
SI) (dB)
HC (%)
Hoda Motamedi and
Ayyoob Jafari [27]
Wavelet transform and image
denoising techniques.
Barbara 39.65 62.37
Boat 36.34 76.87
Tasnuva Mahajabin
et. al.,[28]
Pixel value differencing and LSB
substitution Method
Mandril 32.67 47.93
Ashish Soni et.al.,[29]
Discrete Fractional fourier
Transform.
Rice 32.46 100
Proposed
coefficient replacement and
adaptive scaling steganography
based on DTCWT
Barbara 41.05 100
Boat 42.49 100
Mandrilla 42.94 100
Rice 35.79 100
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6. CONCLUSIONS
In this paper, an algorithm for embedding DTCWT based LL sub band coefficients of secret
information into HH sub band coefficients of cover image using adaptive scaling is proposed. The
novel coefficient replacement technique improves the security, PSNR and 100 percent hiding
capacity. The adaptive scaling and use of DTCWT transformation yields better results compared
to the existing techniques. In future, the proposed technique can be used in spatial domain.
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