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Image steganography is a technique for obscuring secret message within image pixel matrix. It provides means for secretly communicating between two entities with the third party totally unaware of the embedded message. One of the most important methods for image steganography is edge detection technique, wherein secret data is inserted in LSBs of image edge pixels. Data embedding in edge pixels does not create notable distortion in image when compared to embedding data in non-edge pixels. Different types of edge pixel detectors are available including most renowned Canny edge detector, Sobel edge detector, Prewitt edge detector and many others. Hybrid edge detection uses a combination of different edge detectors for generating edge pixels of image. Message to be secretly communicated is inserted in the LSB of these edge pixels, and the image thus formed called stego image is sent to the concerned party. Major drawback of hybrid edge detection technique is its capacity. The number of edge pixels is very less in any image. In the last decade, many papers have focused on increasing capacity of edge detection by using different techniques. In this work, we have proposed an extremely high-capacity hybrid edge detection technique by using data compression. Also, data is encrypted and then inserted in the cover image pixels. For message integrity, SHA512 hash function is used. Subsequently, this work not only improves capacity of edge detection while maintaining the image quality but also provides security and message integrity.
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Yadav, P., Mohapatra, A.K. (2020). Extremely High-Capacity, Secure Image Steganography Based on Composite Edge Detection, with Message Integrity. In: Bansal, J., Gupta, M., Sharma, H., Agarwal, B. (eds) Communication and Intelligent Systems. ICCIS 2019. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 120. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3325-9_1
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