The paper presents a novel Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) Steganography system. The algorithm uses an animated (GIF) file format video to applyon, a secured and variable image partition scheme for data embedding. ...The paper presents a novel Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) Steganography system. The algorithm uses an animated (GIF) file format video to applyon, a secured and variable image partition scheme for data embedding. The secretdata could be any character text, any image, an audio file, or a video file;that isconverted in the form of bits. The proposed method uses a variable partitionscheme structure for data embedding in the (GIF) file format video. The algorithmestimates the capacity of the cover (GIF) image frames to embed data bits. Ourmethod built variable partition blocks in an empty frame separately and incorporate it with randomly selected (GIF) frames. This way the (GIF) frame is dividedinto variable block same as in the empty frame. Then algorithm embeds secretdata on appropriate pixel of the (GIF) frame. Each selected partition block for dataembedding, can store a different number of data bits based on block size. Intruders could never come to know exact position of the secrete data in this stegoframe. All the (GIF) frames are rebuild to make animated stego (GIF) video.The performance of the proposed (GIF) algorithm has experimented andevaluated based on different input parameters, like Mean Square Error (MSE)and Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) values. The results are compared withsome existing methods and found that our method has promising results.展开更多
文摘The paper presents a novel Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) Steganography system. The algorithm uses an animated (GIF) file format video to applyon, a secured and variable image partition scheme for data embedding. The secretdata could be any character text, any image, an audio file, or a video file;that isconverted in the form of bits. The proposed method uses a variable partitionscheme structure for data embedding in the (GIF) file format video. The algorithmestimates the capacity of the cover (GIF) image frames to embed data bits. Ourmethod built variable partition blocks in an empty frame separately and incorporate it with randomly selected (GIF) frames. This way the (GIF) frame is dividedinto variable block same as in the empty frame. Then algorithm embeds secretdata on appropriate pixel of the (GIF) frame. Each selected partition block for dataembedding, can store a different number of data bits based on block size. Intruders could never come to know exact position of the secrete data in this stegoframe. All the (GIF) frames are rebuild to make animated stego (GIF) video.The performance of the proposed (GIF) algorithm has experimented andevaluated based on different input parameters, like Mean Square Error (MSE)and Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) values. The results are compared withsome existing methods and found that our method has promising results.