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Capacity on Demand Steganography Through Adaptive Threshold Strategy

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Security with Intelligent Computing and Big-data Services (SICBS 2017)

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In the process of secret communication, in fact, the length of each transmission of ciphertext will never be the same. In order to meet dynamic length of ciphertext and provide a good image quality, a novel adaptive threshold strategy is presented. Firstly, a threshold pixel value and a k value are decided dynamically based on the length of ciphertext and the cumulative statistics of cover-image’s pixel value. Then if a pixel value is more than threshold value, more than k bits secret data can be embedded by using modified Least Significant Bit (LSB) substitution method, or the data of equal or less than k bits can be embedded. This dynamic strategy can adjust hiding capacity consistent with the length of secret message, and the secret data can be embedded in stego-image as evenly as possible. Quality of stego-image would be improved by this way. The experimental results, the proposed method not only achieves a larger embedding capacity, but also has higher visual quality of stego-image than most of proposed LSB based methods.

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  1. Department of Information Management, National Defense University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Sheng-Chih Ho & Chung-Yi Lin

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Defense University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Chao-Lung Chou

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan

    Sheng-Lung Peng

  2. Department of Information Management, Central Police University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Shiuh-Jeng Wang

  3. Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, Faculty of Engineering, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania

    Valentina Emilia Balas

  4. School of Computer Technology, Jingzhou, China

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Ho, SC., Lin, CY., Chou, CL. (2018). Capacity on Demand Steganography Through Adaptive Threshold Strategy. In: Peng, SL., Wang, SJ., Balas, V., Zhao, M. (eds) Security with Intelligent Computing and Big-data Services. SICBS 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 733. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76451-1_19

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