An Active Steganographic Scheme Using SSB
Sarathkumar. R, Kalpana. V
Information Security Education Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2017.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/isej/fulltext/v4n2/isejv4n2_2.pdf
Abstract:
Steganography is the art of hiding the reality that communication is carried out, by concealing data in other
data. The Steganographic techniques increse the security by exploring the possibility of data analytics to hide data efficiently
and securely. The proposed active steganographic method examines each pixel in an image and categories the pixel into
primary and secondary pixels and based on that it creates a mask image that helps to increase the payload and embedding
rate with secure encoding function. Then inpainting technique is employed over the mask image to increase data hiding.
Hiding data in individual colour segments through selected significant bit (SSB) provides secure data storage and efficient
data retrieval and the use of Huffman compression techniques will increase the embedding ratio. During the recovery
mechanism the cover image and the secluded data can be retrieved from the stego image without any loss of data and
distortion to the cover image. Thus, the proposed scheme renders secure communication along with a greater embedding
ratio and improved visual tone.