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In steganography secrets are imposed inside the cover medium either by replacing bits in the spatial domain or changing the frequency domain. Instead the proposed Implicit Image Steganography (IIS) scheme does not alter or replace bits in the original cover image for hiding information. As the name implies there is no explicit embedding of data inside the image. Before beginning the communication, entities should agree upon a cover image with maximum ranges of intensity values. At least, it should contain intensity values that can represent ASCII of all characters. Coordinate positions of each pixel with intensity which can be the ASCII of a letter in the secret will be the stego-key. In this scheme, transferring of cover image is not done as in the case of usual procedures. The communicating entities have to transfer only the key. The big advantage of this technique is that the cover is not required to transmit each other. Hence nobody can even know about the cover. So it is not only difficult but impossible to attack this communication. Also it is not required to worry whether distortion happens while embedding.
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Jithesh, K., Anto, P.B. (2014). IIS: Implicit Image Steganography. In: Tan, Y., Shi, Y., Coello, C.A.C. (eds) Advances in Swarm Intelligence. ICSI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8795. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11897-0_33
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