Title :
Minimizing Security Threats in Multimedia Systems
Author :
Singh, Harsh Vikram ; Singh, Ashutosh Kumar ; Balasubramanian, S.K. ; Mohan, Anand
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Banaras Hindu Univ., Varanasi
Abstract :
This paper describes security enhancement of multimedia data using steganography. The proposed method is based on a new method of embedding ASCII text characters into moderatory bits of IEEE standard multimedia images, which are used as cover media. Simulation results for peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and mean square error (MSE) for text data embedding into different moderatory bit positions are presented. It is shown that the proposed method of data embedding offers superior robustness against external attacks as compared to LSB insertion technique without compromising the perceptual quality of the host multimedia image. Therefore our proposed method can find potential use in security enhancement of multimedia image
Keywords :
IEEE standards; cryptography; data encapsulation; image processing; mean square error methods; multimedia systems; telecommunication security; ASCII text character; IEEE standard multimedia images; mean square error; multimedia system; security enhancement; steganography; text data embedding; Data encapsulation; Data engineering; Data security; Information security; Information technology; Mean square error methods; Multimedia systems; PSNR; Protection; Steganography; Data Hiding Technique; Secure Multimedia Systems; Security Threats; Watermarking;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Frameworks for Multimedia Applications, 2006. The 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pulau Pinang
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0409-6
DOI :
10.1109/DFMA.2006.296907