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Block-Based Colour Image Steganography Using Smart Pixel-Adjustment

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Genetic and Evolutionary Computing

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 329))

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By adjusting the pixel-value of a host block, we design an effective steganographic method for color images. Specifically, based on a smart pixel-adjustment policy with two averages of the block, a secret message can be embedded in a host image without arising visual distortion. Experiments indicate that the perceived quality generated by the proposed method is good while the payload is larger than existing techniques. Moreover, the proposed method has a merit of maintaining a certain degree of robustness. Namely, the marked images generated by our method are tolerant of manipulations such as color quantization, equalized, edge sharpening, inversion, JPEG, JPEG2000, noise additions, pixel-truncation, winding, and zigzagging. This robustness is rarely found in the traditional techniques for color image steganography.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Penghu, Taiwan

    Ching-Yu Yang

  2. Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan

    Wen-Fong Wang

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  1. HIGH-TECH Industry Development Zone, Nanchang Institute of Technology, Jiangxi Province, China

    Hui Sun

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Magong City, Taiwan

    Chin-Yu Yang

  3. Innovative Information Industry Research Center, Shenzhen University Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China

    Chun-Wei Lin

  4. Harbin Institute of Technology Innovative Info. Industry Res. Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

    Jeng-Shyang Pan

  5. Department of Computer Science Faculty of Elec. Eng. & Comp. Sci., VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

    Vaclav Snasel

  6. Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Auburn, Washington, USA

    Ajith Abraham

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Yang, CY., Wang, WF. (2015). Block-Based Colour Image Steganography Using Smart Pixel-Adjustment. In: Sun, H., Yang, CY., Lin, CW., Pan, JS., Snasel, V., Abraham, A. (eds) Genetic and Evolutionary Computing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 329. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12286-1_15

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