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A Novel Image Hiding Technique Based on Stratified Steganography

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Smart Computing and Informatics

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies ((SIST,volume 77))

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In current Web-based era, the security is becoming crucial factor for exchange of digital data. Other than cryptography, steganography is widely used due to its applications to multimedia information. Among various multimedia content, images are considered for steganography due to its large amount of redundant space availability. In steganography, bit stream-based information can be hidden in any carrier. The present paper proposes a novel algorithm for hiding gray image in the input cover image called as “Logical Stratified Steganography Technique.” The proposed algorithm uses OR operation to combine the cover and hidden images. To test the integrity and robustness, the proposed method is applied on various images like human faces, textures, and medical images. Various performance measures are used to compare the quality of the proposed method. The strength of the proposed method is clearly exhibited with the evaluated results.

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  1. Department of CSE, Pragati Engineering College, Surampalem, India

    M. Radhika Mani

  2. Department of IT, Pragati Engineering College, Surampalem, India

    G. Suryakala Eswari

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India

    Suresh Chandra Satapathy

  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Group of Professional Colleges, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

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  3. Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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Radhika Mani, M., Suryakala Eswari, G. (2018). A Novel Image Hiding Technique Based on Stratified Steganography. In: Satapathy, S., Bhateja, V., Das, S. (eds) Smart Computing and Informatics . Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 77. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5544-7_5

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