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A Survey on Digital Image Steganography Approaches

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Intelligent Technologies and Applications (INTAP 2018)

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Steganography is the science of secret communication. It assumes if message is visible then it can be accessed. If it is invisible then it can never be in front of attack. So it hides the existence of message in an embedded image. As the awareness of privacy and security is increased by an individual, in government sector, security agencies and in some secret personal communication, the importance of steganography is also increasing. The characteristics of steganography like imperceptibility, robustness, high capacity separate it from other relevant methods like cryptography and watermarking. Here is the review of different techniques and state of the art methods done by the different scholars. These methodologies have described in different domains of steganography like spatial domain, frequency domain, discrete courier transform in frequency domain and adaptive domain. Every domain has its own characteristics. We analyzed various approaches in our survey and described their characteristics.

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  1. National College of Business Administration and Economics, Lahore, Pakistan

    Imra Aqeel

  2. ADC (G) Rahm Yar Khan in PMS Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

    Muhammad Babar Suleman

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  2. Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

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  3. Department of Computer Engineering and Digital Systems, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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Aqeel, I., Suleman, M.B. (2019). A Survey on Digital Image Steganography Approaches. In: Bajwa, I., Kamareddine, F., Costa, A. (eds) Intelligent Technologies and Applications. INTAP 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 932. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6052-7_66

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