Secure blind image steganographic technique using discrete Fourier transformation

Author

Alturki, Faisal ; Mersereau, Russell

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Coll. of Technol. Studies, Shuwaikh, Kuwait

Volume

2

fYear

2001

Firstpage

542

Abstract

We present a new steganographic technique for covert communications. The technique embeds the hidden information in the DFT domain after permuting the image pixels in the spatial domain using a key. The permutation process introduces randomness into the cover image and results in a significant increase in the number of transform coefficients that can be used to transmit the hidden information. The hidden information is embedded using a quantization technique. The perceptual and statistical properties of the cover and the stego images remain similar for small quantization steps. The security of the system is examined against known stego attack

Keywords

cryptography; data compression; discrete Fourier transforms; image coding; quantisation (signal); statistical analysis; transform coding; DFT domain; cover image randomness; covert communications; cryptography; discrete Fourier transformation; hidden information; image pixels permutation; perceptual properties; quantization; secure blind image steganography; statistical properties; stego images; system security; transform coefficients; Application software; Cryptography; Decorrelation; Educational institutions; Frequency; Image converters; Information security; Pixel; Quantization; Steganography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Thessaloniki

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6725-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.2001.958548

Filename

958548