A Blind High-Capacity Wavelet-Based Steganography Technique for Hiding Images into other Images

作者：Hamad Safwat^*; Khalifa Amal; Elhadad Ahmed

来源：Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2014, 14(2): 35-42.

DOI：10.4316/AECE.2014.02006

• blindness
• digital images
• discrete wavelet transforms
• information security
• payloads

The flourishing field of Steganography is providing effective techniques to hide data into different types of digital media. In this paper, a novel technique is proposed to hide large amounts of image data into true colored images. The proposed method employs wavelet transforms to decompose images in a way similar to the Human Visual System (HVS) for more secure and effective data hiding. The designed model can blindly extract the embedded message without the need to refer to the original cover image. Experimental results showed that the proposed method outperformed all of the existing techniques not only imperceptibility but also in terms of capacity. In fact, the proposed technique showed an outstanding performance on hiding a secret image whose size equals 100% of the cover image while maintaining excellent visual quality of the resultant stego-images.

• 出版日期2014