Visible to the public An image steganography approach based on k-least significant bits (k-LSB)

TitleAn image steganography approach based on k-least significant bits (k-LSB)
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsElharrouss, Omar, Almaadeed, Noor, Al-Maadeed, Somaya
Conference Name2020 IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies (ICIoT)
Date Publishedfeb
Keywordscomposability, Decoding, digital images, Entropy, Entropy filter, Image coding, Image quality, Image resolution, Image Steganography, k-LSB, LSB, Metrics, privacy, pubcrawl, steganography, steganography detection, Watermarking
AbstractImage steganography is the operation of hiding a message into a cover image. the message can be text, codes, or image. Hiding an image into another is the proposed approach in this paper. Based on LSB coding, a k-LSB-based method is proposed using k least bits to hide the image. For decoding the hidden image, a region detection operation is used to know the blocks contains the hidden image. The resolution of stego image can be affected, for that, an image quality enhancement method is used to enhance the image resolution. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, we compare it with some of the state-of-the-art methods.
DOI10.1109/ICIoT48696.2020.9089566
Citation Keyelharrouss_image_2020