Abstract
Based on Hadamard transformation and the novel enhanced quantum representation for quantum images (NEQR), a quantum image steganography scheme to embed a quantum text message into a quantum image is proposed. The extraction process can recover the text message with the stego image only. In the earlier works, there is no quantum image steganography algorithm to embed the quantum text message into a quantum image. The simulation results demonstrated that the proposed scheme has high-capacity, good invisibility, and high security.
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The authors would like to thank Dr. Li-Hua Gong For the valuable comments. This work was supported by Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (Egypt-Tunisia Cooperation Program: 4-13 A1) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61462061 and 61561033).
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Abd-El-Atty, B., Abd El-Latif, A.A., Amin, M. (2017). New Quantum Image Steganography Scheme with Hadamard Transformation. In: Hassanien, A., Shaalan, K., Gaber, T., Azar, A., Tolba, M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2016. AISI 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 533. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48308-5_33
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