Steganography using overlapping codebook partition

  • Authors:
  • Yung Kuei Chiang;Piyu Tsai

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National United University, Miaoli, Taiwan 360, ROC;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National United University, Miaoli, Taiwan 360, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A tradeoff between the hiding capacity of a cover image and the quality of a stego-image in steganographic schemes is inevitable. This paper presents overlapping codebook partitioning to challenge this tradeoff. The codewords in a codebook are grouped into sub-clusters, according to similarity. Any size sub-cluster is allowed; moreover, a sub-cluster is permitted to overlap with sub-clusters to increase hiding capacity without sacrificing image quality. As a result of this improved scheme, the hiding capacity of a cover image increases, whereas the quality of a stego-image stays the same.