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Steganographic method based on interpolation and LSB substitution of digital images

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Steganography is the method of hiding secret data in other data, such as video or an image. A reversible data hiding method can extract the cover image from a stego-image without distortion after extracting the hidden data. In this paper a semi-reversible data hiding method that utilizes interpolation and the least significant substitution technique is proposed. First, interpolation methods are used to scale up and down the cover image before hiding secret data for a higher capacity and quality. Secondly, the LSB substitution method is used to embed secret data. Experimental results show that the proposed method can embed a large amount of secret data while keeping very high visual quality, where the PSNR is guaranteed to be 37.54 dB (k = 3) and 43.94 dB (k = 2).

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  1. School of Computer Information, Yeungjin College, 218 Bokhyun-Dong, Buk-Gu, Daegu, 702-721, Republic of Korea

    Ki-Hyun Jung

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 1370 Sankyuk-Dong, Buk-Gu, Daegu, 702-701, Republic of Korea

    Kee-Young Yoo

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Jung, KH., Yoo, KY. Steganographic method based on interpolation and LSB substitution of digital images. Multimed Tools Appl 74, 2143–2155 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-013-1832-y

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