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International Conference on Computational and Information Science

CIS 2005: Computational Intelligence and Security pp 581–588Cite as

An Image Steganography Using Pixel Characteristics

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This paper presents a steganographic algorithm in digital images to embed a hidden message into cover images. This method is able to provide a high quality stego image in spite of the high capacity of the concealed information. In our method, the number of insertion bits into each pixel is different according to each pixel’s characteristics. That is, the number of insertion bit is dependent on whether the pixel is an edge area or smooth area. We experimented on various images to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Information Security, Pukyong National University, 599-1 Daeyeon-3Dong, Nam-Gu, Busan, 608-737, Republic of Korea

    Young-Ran Park & Sang-Uk Shin

  2. Graduate School of Information Systems, University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, Chofu-shi, Tokyo, Japan

    Hyun-Ho Kang

  3. Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, 55-1 Uam-Dong, Nam-Gu, Busan, 608-738, Republic of Korea

    Ki-Ryong Kwon

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Microelectronic Instiute, Xidian University, 710071, Xi’an, China

    Yue Hao

  2. Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

    Jiming Liu

  3. School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, China

    Yu-Ping Wang

  4. Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong,  

    Yiu-ming Cheung

  5. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, UK

    Hujun Yin

  6. Life Science Research Center, School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, 710071, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

    Licheng Jiao

  7. Key Laboratory of Computer Networks and Information Security(Ministry of Education), Xidian University, 710071, Xi’an, China

    Jianfeng Ma

  8. National Laboratory of Antennas and Microwave Technology, Xidian University, 710071, Xi’an, Shanxi, P.R. China

    Yong-Chang Jiao

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Park, YR., Kang, HH., Shin, SU., Kwon, KR. (2005). An Image Steganography Using Pixel Characteristics. In: Hao, Y., et al. Computational Intelligence and Security. CIS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3802. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11596981_86

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11596981_86

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-30819-5

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