In today’s rapidly evolving landscape of communication technologies,ensuring the secure delivery of sensitive data has become an essential priority.To overcome these difficulties,different steganography and data encr...In today’s rapidly evolving landscape of communication technologies,ensuring the secure delivery of sensitive data has become an essential priority.To overcome these difficulties,different steganography and data encryption methods have been proposed by researchers to secure communications.Most of the proposed steganography techniques achieve higher embedding capacities without compromising visual imperceptibility using LSB substitution.In this work,we have an approach that utilizes a combinationofMost SignificantBit(MSB)matching andLeast Significant Bit(LSB)substitution.The proposed algorithm divides confidential messages into pairs of bits and connects them with the MSBs of individual pixels using pair matching,enabling the storage of 6 bits in one pixel by modifying a maximum of three bits.The proposed technique is evaluated using embedding capacity and Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio(PSNR)score,we compared our work with the Zakariya scheme the results showed a significant increase in data concealment capacity.The achieved results of ourwork showthat our algorithmdemonstrates an improvement in hiding capacity from11%to 22%for different data samples while maintaining a minimumPeak Signal-to-Noise Ratio(PSNR)of 37 dB.These findings highlight the effectiveness and trustworthiness of the proposed algorithm in securing the communication process and maintaining visual integrity.展开更多
The concept of dual image reversible data hiding(DIRDH) is the technique that can produce two camouflage images after embedding secret data into one original image.Moreover,not only can the secret data be extracted ...The concept of dual image reversible data hiding(DIRDH) is the technique that can produce two camouflage images after embedding secret data into one original image.Moreover,not only can the secret data be extracted from two camouflage images but also the original image can be recovered.To achieve high image quality,Lu et al.'s method applied least-significant-bit(LSB) matching revisited to DIRDH.In order to further improve the image quality,the proposed method modifies LSB matching revisited rules and applies them to DIRDH.According to the experimental results,the image quality of the proposed method is better than that of Lu et al.'s method.展开更多
基金in part by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)funded by the Ministry of Education(NRF-2021R1A6A1A03039493)by the 2024 Yeungnam University Research Grant.
文摘In today’s rapidly evolving landscape of communication technologies,ensuring the secure delivery of sensitive data has become an essential priority.To overcome these difficulties,different steganography and data encryption methods have been proposed by researchers to secure communications.Most of the proposed steganography techniques achieve higher embedding capacities without compromising visual imperceptibility using LSB substitution.In this work,we have an approach that utilizes a combinationofMost SignificantBit(MSB)matching andLeast Significant Bit(LSB)substitution.The proposed algorithm divides confidential messages into pairs of bits and connects them with the MSBs of individual pixels using pair matching,enabling the storage of 6 bits in one pixel by modifying a maximum of three bits.The proposed technique is evaluated using embedding capacity and Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio(PSNR)score,we compared our work with the Zakariya scheme the results showed a significant increase in data concealment capacity.The achieved results of ourwork showthat our algorithmdemonstrates an improvement in hiding capacity from11%to 22%for different data samples while maintaining a minimumPeak Signal-to-Noise Ratio(PSNR)of 37 dB.These findings highlight the effectiveness and trustworthiness of the proposed algorithm in securing the communication process and maintaining visual integrity.
基金supported by MOST under Grants No.105-2410-H-468-010 and No.105-2221-E-468-019
文摘The concept of dual image reversible data hiding(DIRDH) is the technique that can produce two camouflage images after embedding secret data into one original image.Moreover,not only can the secret data be extracted from two camouflage images but also the original image can be recovered.To achieve high image quality,Lu et al.'s method applied least-significant-bit(LSB) matching revisited to DIRDH.In order to further improve the image quality,the proposed method modifies LSB matching revisited rules and applies them to DIRDH.According to the experimental results,the image quality of the proposed method is better than that of Lu et al.'s method.