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Secure Cover Selection Steganography

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Advances in Information Security and Assurance (ISA 2009)

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This paper presents a cover selection steganography method based on introduction of a technique for computing steganography capacity as a property of images. An ensemble system that uses different steganalyzer units, determines the upper bound of embedding rate in a cover image. In this technique, each steganalyzer unit is a combination of multiple steganalyzers with a same type but each one trained to detect stego images with a certain payload. Our proposed method minimizes the risk of detection by selecting a proper cover image that its steganography capacity is sufficient to hide a specific secret data securely. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency and practicability of the proposed technique in enhancing the security of stego images.

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  1. Computer Engineering Department, Sharif university of Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Hedieh Sajedi & Mansour Jamzad

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  1. Computer Engineering Department, Kyungnam University, 449, Wolyong-dong, 631-701, Kyungnam, Masan, Korea

    Jong Hyuk Park

  2. Institute of Communications Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    Hsiao-Hwa Chen

  3. School of Computer Science,, University of Oklahoma, 200 Felgar Street, 73019, P.O. Box, Norman, OK, USA

    Mohammed Atiquzzaman

  4. School of Computer Engineering, Hanshin University, Kyeong-Gi, Osan, Korea

    Changhoon Lee

  5. Division of Multimedia, Hannam University, Daejeon, Korea

    Tai-hoon Kim

  6. Division of Computer Engineering, Mokwon University, Daejeon, Korea

    Sang-Soo Yeo

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Sajedi, H., Jamzad, M. (2009). Secure Cover Selection Steganography. In: Park, J.H., Chen, HH., Atiquzzaman, M., Lee, C., Kim, Th., Yeo, SS. (eds) Advances in Information Security and Assurance. ISA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5576. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02617-1_33

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