COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EDGE BASED LSB MATCHING STEGANOGRAPHY FOR COLOR IMAGES

ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing ( Volume: 6 , Issue: 3 )

Abstract

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Steganography is a very pivotal technique mainly used for covert transfer of information over a covert communication channel. This paper proposes a significant comparative study of the spatial LSB domain technique that focuses on sharper edges of the color as well as gray scale images for the purpose of data hiding and hides secret message first in sharper edge regions and then in smooth regions of the image. Message embedding depends on content of the image and message size. The experimental results illustrate that, for low embedding rate the method hides the message in sharp edges of cover image to get better stego image visualization quality. For high embedding rate, smooth regions and edges of the cover image are used for the purpose of data hiding. In this steganography method, color image and textured kind of image preserves better visual quality of stego image. The novelty of the comparative study is that, it helps to analyze the efficiency and performance of the method as it gives better results because it directly works on color images instead of converting to gray scale image.

Authors

A.J. Umbarkar, Pravin R. Kamble, Aniket V. Thakre
Walchand College of Engineering, India

Keywords

Information Hiding, Spatial Domain Image Steganography, Least Significant Bit (LSB), Edge Based LSB

Published By
ICTACT
Published In
ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing
( Volume: 6 , Issue: 3 )
Date of Publication
February 2016
Pages
1185-1191

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