Multi-Edge Concept used for Image Steganography

Rasber Dh.  Rashid; Ladeh S.  Abdulrahman; Taban F. Majeed

doi:10.15649/2346075X.691

Authors

Rasber Dh. Rashid Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Koya University, Iraq
Ladeh S. Abdulrahman Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Koya University, Iraq
Taban F. Majeed Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Koya University, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15649/2346075X.691

Keywords:

Steganography, Edge, LSB.

Abstract

Digital Steganography means hiding sensitive data inside a cover object in
a way that is invisible to un-authorized persons. Many proposed steganography techniques in spatial domain may achieve high invisibility requirement but sacrifice the good robustness against attacks. In some cases, we
need to take in account not just the invisibility but also we need to think
about other requirement which is the robustness of recovering the embedded secrete messages. In this paper we propose a new steganoraphic
scheme that aims to achieve the robustness even the stego image attacked
by steganalyzers. Furthermore, we proposed a scheme which is more robust against JPEG compression attack compared with other traditional
steganography schemes.

Author Biographies

Rasber Dh. Rashid, Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Koya University, Iraq

Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Koya University, Iraq

Ladeh S. Abdulrahman, Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Koya University, Iraq

Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Koya University, Iraq

Taban F. Majeed, Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Koya University, Iraq

Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Koya University, Iraq

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