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Characteristic Region-Based Image Steganography

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For most of the current steganography techniques, the information-hiding process modifies almost all cover components. Hiding data in the whole image may affect visual quality and increases the possibility of data loss after any possible attacks. In this chapter, a new region-based steganography method, CR-BIS , which hides data in the robust regions of the image, is proposed. First, the secret data are encrypted via a highly secure encryption algorithm. Second, SURF is used to locate the strongest sections in the image. Then data embedding is accomplished in a content-based style by varying the wavelet transform coefficients of those strong sections. The robustness of the proposed algorithm increases when second-level DWT is used to hide data, especially against JPEG compression. However, applying the same scheme to the median and the low-pass filters remains difficult. Utilizing higher DWT levels is useful to enhance the robustness.

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Yahya, A. (2019). Characteristic Region-Based Image Steganography. In: Steganography Techniques for Digital Images. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78597-4_3

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