A security steganography method for lossy compression gray scale image

  • Authors:
  • Ziwen Sun;Zhicheng Ji

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Communication and Control Engineering, Southern Yangtze University, Wuxi, China;School of Communication and Control Engineering, Southern Yangtze University, Wuxi, China

  • Venue:
  • ICIC'07 Proceedings of the intelligent computing 3rd international conference on Advanced intelligent computing theories and applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Based on DCT coefficients, we propose a steganographic technique. Our method embeds a message into the DCT coefficients of an image according to the relative size of a selected DCT coefficient value and the average value of its adjacent coefficients in the block to embed and extract the hiding message bit. The coefficients are chosen middle-to-low frequency coefficients in order to defend against JPEG compression. The method decreases the likelihood of being detected, and the resulted stego-image can be stored in JPEG format. The hidden message can be securely transformed. Our experiments show that our method can extract the data efficiently and blindness.