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Pixel rearrangement based statistical restoration scheme reducing embedding noise

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In this paper, a block based steganographic algorithm has been proposed where a sequence of secret bits are embedded into a set of pixels by rearranging the pixel locations. This algorithm has been devised as an improvement over existing statistical restoration based algorithms in order to reduce the additive noise which occurs due to embedding. It is shown that the proposed scheme substantially reduces the additive noise compared to existing statistical restoration based schemes.

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The authors acknowledge the help received from the anonymous reviewers for the improvisation of the paper from its previous version.

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  1. Dept. of CSE, IIT Guwahati, Assam, India

    Arijit Sur

  2. Dept. of EE, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

    Vignesh Ramanathan

  3. Dept. of CSE, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

    Jayanta Mukherjee

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Sur, A., Ramanathan, V. & Mukherjee, J. Pixel rearrangement based statistical restoration scheme reducing embedding noise. Multimed Tools Appl 68, 805–825 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-012-1078-0

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