An Improved Image Steganography Scheme Based on RDWT and QR Decomposition
This paper demonstrates an improved image steganography that hides grayscale secret image into grayscale cover image using RDWT and QR decomposition. The proposed scheme made use of the human visual system (HVS) in the embedding process. Both cover and secret image are being segmented into non-overl...
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| author | Ng, Ke-Huey Liew, Siau-Chuin Ernawan, Ferda |
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| description | This paper demonstrates an improved image steganography that hides grayscale secret image into grayscale cover image using RDWT and QR decomposition. The proposed scheme made use of the human visual system (HVS) in the embedding process. Both cover and secret image are being segmented into non-overlapping blocks with identical block size. Then, entropy values generated from every image block will be sorted from the lowest value to the highest value. The embedding process starts by embedding the secret image block with lowest entropy value into the cover image block with lowest entropy value. The process goes on until all image blocks have been embedded. Embedding secret image into cover image according to the entropy values causes differences that HVS can less likely to detect because of the small changes on image texture. The proposed scheme provides improvement in terms of imperceptibility, which gives higher values of PSNR and better image quality. |
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| spelling | ump-281052021-10-25T06:23:24Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/28105/ An Improved Image Steganography Scheme Based on RDWT and QR Decomposition Ng, Ke-Huey Liew, Siau-Chuin Ernawan, Ferda QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science This paper demonstrates an improved image steganography that hides grayscale secret image into grayscale cover image using RDWT and QR decomposition. The proposed scheme made use of the human visual system (HVS) in the embedding process. Both cover and secret image are being segmented into non-overlapping blocks with identical block size. Then, entropy values generated from every image block will be sorted from the lowest value to the highest value. The embedding process starts by embedding the secret image block with lowest entropy value into the cover image block with lowest entropy value. The process goes on until all image blocks have been embedded. Embedding secret image into cover image according to the entropy values causes differences that HVS can less likely to detect because of the small changes on image texture. The proposed scheme provides improvement in terms of imperceptibility, which gives higher values of PSNR and better image quality. IOP Publishing 2020 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/28105/1/An%20Improved%20Image%20Steganography%20Scheme%20Based%20on%20RDWT%20and%20QR%20Decomposition1.pdf Ng, Ke-Huey and Liew, Siau-Chuin and Ernawan, Ferda (2020) An Improved Image Steganography Scheme Based on RDWT and QR Decomposition. In: 6th International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems (ICSECS 2019) , 25-27 September 2019 , Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. pp. 222-231., 769 (1). ISSN 1757-8981 (Published) https://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110327 |
| spellingShingle | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Ng, Ke-Huey Liew, Siau-Chuin Ernawan, Ferda An Improved Image Steganography Scheme Based on RDWT and QR Decomposition |
| title | An Improved Image Steganography Scheme Based on RDWT and QR Decomposition |
| title_full | An Improved Image Steganography Scheme Based on RDWT and QR Decomposition |
| title_fullStr | An Improved Image Steganography Scheme Based on RDWT and QR Decomposition |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Improved Image Steganography Scheme Based on RDWT and QR Decomposition |
| title_short | An Improved Image Steganography Scheme Based on RDWT and QR Decomposition |
| title_sort | improved image steganography scheme based on rdwt and qr decomposition |
| topic | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
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