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Steganographic Algorithm Based on Adapting Secret Message to the Cover Image

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Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development (AI2SD’2018) (AI2SD 2018)

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Abstract

Steganography is the art of dissimulating secret data into digital files in an imperceptible way that does not arise the suspicion; it is one of the techniques of information security field. In this paper, a steganographic method based on the Faber-Schauder discrete wavelet transform is proposed, the embedding of the secret data is performed in the Least Significant Bits of the integer part of the high frequency coefficients. The secret message is decomposed into packets of K bits, and then each packet is transformed into another packet based on a permutation that allows obtaining the most matches possible between the message and the K-LSBs of the coefficients. To assess the performance of the proposed method, experiments were carried out on a large set of images, and a comparison to prior works is accomplished. Results show a good level of imperceptibility and a good trade-off imperceptibility-capacity compared to literature.

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    Youssef Taouil & El Bachir Ameur

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Taouil, Y., Ameur, E.B. (2019). Steganographic Algorithm Based on Adapting Secret Message to the Cover Image. In: Ezziyyani, M. (eds) Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development (AI2SD’2018). AI2SD 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 915. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11928-7_69

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