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Adaptive LSB Steganography for High Capacity in Spatial Color Images

컬러이미지 대상 고용량 적응형 LSB 스테가노그라피

  • Lee, Haeyoung (Hongik University, Dept. of Computer Engineering)
  • 이혜영 (홍익대학교 공과대학 컴퓨터공학과)
  • Received : 2017.11.04
  • Accepted : 2018.02.12
  • Published : 2018.03.01
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Abstract

This paper presents a new adaptive LSB steganography for high capacity in spatial color images. The number of least signi ficant bit (LSB) of each RGB component in a color image pixel, to replace with the data bits to be hidden, was determine d through analysis of the worst case peak signal noise ratio (PSNR). In addition, the combination of the number of bits is determined adaptively according to image content. That is, 70% of the data to be hidden is proposed to be replaced with 3 bit LSB of two components, 2 bit LSB of the rest component, and 30% be replaced with 4 bit LSB of each RGB compon ent. To find edge areas in an image, delta sorting in local area is also suggested. Using the proposed method, the data cap acity is 9.2 bits per pixel (bpp). The average PSNR value of the tested images with concealed data of up to 60Kbyte was 43.9 db and also natural histograms were generated.

본 논문은 컬러 이미지대상 고용량 데이터 은닉을 위한 새로운 적응형 least-significant-bit(LSB) 스테가노그라피 알고리즘을 제시한다. 은닉할 데이터 비트와 교체하기 위한 컬러 이미지 픽셀의 빨강, 초록, 파랑 (RGB) 컴포넌트의 LSB 비트 수는 peak signal noise ratio (PSNR) 최저값 분석을 통해 결정하였다. 은닉 데이터의 70%는 픽셀의 두 색상 컴포넌트 LSB 3비트를, 나머지 컴포넌트 LSB 2 비트를 교체하고, 30%는 모든 RGB 컴포넌트 LSB 4비트를 교체하는 조합을 제안한다. 또한, 데이터를 은닉할 에지영역 픽셀 선택을 위하여 지역적인 정렬방법도 제안한다. 본 방법은 픽셀 당 9.2 비트(9.2bpp)의 고용량 은닉이 가능하다. 30K - 60K바이트 데이터 은닉 실험결과 512x512 컬러 이미지의 평균 PSNR값은 43.9db이고 자연스러운 히스토그램도 도출되었다.

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