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Steganography is the art of secret communication to avoid detection by an unauthorized person. The pixel value differencing (PVD) technique hides the confidential message into the difference between two adjacent pixels. The PVD-based techniques have less embedding capacity due to unidirectional embedding. An index-based data hiding is one of the solutions to enhance the embedding capacity. It has been noticed that index-based data hiding fails to recover accurate data for some cases. This identified problem has been resolved in the proposed technique. It has achieved an average embedding capacity (AEC) of 2.49 bpp which is better than the index-based data hiding technique. The proposed technique withstands steganalysis attacks.
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Mandal, P.C., Mukherjee, I. (2022). Index-Based Improved High Capacity Data Hiding Technique. In: Bhateja, V., Tang, J., Satapathy, S.C., Peer, P., Das, R. (eds) Evolution in Computational Intelligence. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 267. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6616-2_48
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