Data Hiding within Color Images Based on MCT with X-OR Operations

Author

Abduallah, Wafaa Mustafa ; Rahma, Abdul Monem S. ; Pathan, Al-Sakib Khan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Int. Islamic Univ. Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

23-24 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

24

Abstract

In this paper, we present an efficient scheme of color image steganography based on Mix Column Transform (MCT) on specified blocks selected according to secret key and hide the secret message within those using logical X-OR operation. Our experiments show that the security can be increased by following this method since it uses irreducible polynomial mathematics within its operational method. The results have proven increased capacity with maintaining reasonable level of imperceptibility of the hidden data inside color images. We also present the comparisons of our approach with previous related works and show the efficiency of our method.

Keywords

image colour analysis; logic programming; polynomials; steganography; transforms; MCT; color image steganography; data hiding; logical X-OR operation; mix column transform; polynomial mathematics; security; Color; Discrete cosine transforms; Matrix converters; PSNR; Polynomials; Security; Color; Column; Irreducible; Polynomial; Steganography; Transform;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Computer Science Applications and Technologies (ACSAT), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuching

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSAT.2013.12

Filename

6836541