This work presents a new method of data hiding in digital images,in discrete cosine transform domain.The proposed method uses the least significant bits of the medium frequency components of the cover image for hiding...This work presents a new method of data hiding in digital images,in discrete cosine transform domain.The proposed method uses the least significant bits of the medium frequency components of the cover image for hiding the secret information,while the low and high frequency coefficients are kept unaltered.The unaltered low frequency DCT coefficients preserves the quality of the smooth region of the cover image,while no changes in the high DCT coefficient preserve the quality of the edges.As the medium frequency components have less contribution towards energy and image details,so the modification of these coefficients for data hiding results in high quality stego images.The distortion due to the changes in the medium frequency coefficients is insignificant to be detected by the human visual system.The proposed methods demonstrated a hiding capacity of 43:11%with the stego image quality of a peak signal to the noise ration of 36:3 dB,which is significantly higher than the threshold of 30 dB for a stego image quality.The proposed technique is immune to steganalysis and has proved to be highly secured against both spatial and DCT domain steganalysis techniques.展开更多
Cryptography and steganography are two important and related fields of information security.But,steganography is slightly different in the sense that it hides the existence of secret information from unauthorized user...Cryptography and steganography are two important and related fields of information security.But,steganography is slightly different in the sense that it hides the existence of secret information from unauthorized users.It is one of the most appealing research domains,have applications like copyright protection,data integrity protection and manipulation detection.Several steganography techniques have been proposed in literature.But,in this work a new information hiding algorithm is presented.The proposed technique de-correlates frequency components of cover image using discrete cosine transform and uses the least significant bits of frequency components for hiding secret information.The tech-nique hides variable number of bits of secret message in different frequency components.Therefore,it hides different amount of secret information in different regions of cover im-age and results in enhancement of security.The algorithm has the flexibility to change the hiding capacity and quality of final stego image.It has been observed from experimental results that a hiding a capacity from 3%to 43%can be achieved with significantly good quality of 41 dB to 37 dB in term of peak signal to noise ratio.The successful recovery of the hidden information need the pattern,called stego key,in which is used in hiding process.The algorithm provides twofold security;hiding keeps the existence of hidden information secret and the large key size makes the retrieval of hidden information difficult for intruders.展开更多
文摘This work presents a new method of data hiding in digital images,in discrete cosine transform domain.The proposed method uses the least significant bits of the medium frequency components of the cover image for hiding the secret information,while the low and high frequency coefficients are kept unaltered.The unaltered low frequency DCT coefficients preserves the quality of the smooth region of the cover image,while no changes in the high DCT coefficient preserve the quality of the edges.As the medium frequency components have less contribution towards energy and image details,so the modification of these coefficients for data hiding results in high quality stego images.The distortion due to the changes in the medium frequency coefficients is insignificant to be detected by the human visual system.The proposed methods demonstrated a hiding capacity of 43:11%with the stego image quality of a peak signal to the noise ration of 36:3 dB,which is significantly higher than the threshold of 30 dB for a stego image quality.The proposed technique is immune to steganalysis and has proved to be highly secured against both spatial and DCT domain steganalysis techniques.
文摘Cryptography and steganography are two important and related fields of information security.But,steganography is slightly different in the sense that it hides the existence of secret information from unauthorized users.It is one of the most appealing research domains,have applications like copyright protection,data integrity protection and manipulation detection.Several steganography techniques have been proposed in literature.But,in this work a new information hiding algorithm is presented.The proposed technique de-correlates frequency components of cover image using discrete cosine transform and uses the least significant bits of frequency components for hiding secret information.The tech-nique hides variable number of bits of secret message in different frequency components.Therefore,it hides different amount of secret information in different regions of cover im-age and results in enhancement of security.The algorithm has the flexibility to change the hiding capacity and quality of final stego image.It has been observed from experimental results that a hiding a capacity from 3%to 43%can be achieved with significantly good quality of 41 dB to 37 dB in term of peak signal to noise ratio.The successful recovery of the hidden information need the pattern,called stego key,in which is used in hiding process.The algorithm provides twofold security;hiding keeps the existence of hidden information secret and the large key size makes the retrieval of hidden information difficult for intruders.
