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Jpeg steganography: a performance evaluation of quantization tables.
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| Author | Almohammad, Adel Ghinea, Gheorghita Hierons, Robert M. |
| Abstract | The two most important aspects of any imagebased steganographic system are the imperceptibility and the capacity of the stego image. This paper evaluates the performance and efficiency of using optimized quantization tables instead of default JPEG tables within JPEG steganography. We found that using optimized tables significantly improves the quality of stego-images. Moreover, we used this optimization strategy to generate a 16x16 quantization table to be used instead of that suggested in [1]. The quality of stego-images was greatly improved when these optimized tables were used. This led us to suggest a new hybrid steganographic method in order to increase the embedding capacity. This new method is based on both [1] and Jpeg-Jsteg methods. In this method, for each 16x16 quantized DCT block, the least twosignificant bits (2-LSBs) of each middle frequency coefficient are modified to embed two secret bits. Additionally, the Jpeg-Jsteg embedding technique is used for the low frequency DCT coefficients without modifying the DC coefficient. Our experimental results show that the proposed approach can provide a higher information-hiding capacity than the other methods tested. Furthermore, the quality of the produced stego-images is better than that of other methods which use the default tables. 1. |
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| Subject Keyword | Jpeg Steganography Quantization Table Performance Evaluation Information-hiding Capacity New Method Optimized Table Twosignificant Bit Imagebased Steganographic System Low Frequency Dct Coefficient Jpeg-jsteg Embedding Technique Optimization Strategy Produced Stego-images New Hybrid Steganographic Method Stego Image Optimized Quantization Table Important Aspect Quantized Dct Block Default Jpeg Table Middle Frequency Coefficient Dc Coefficient Embedding Capacity Jpeg-jsteg Method Experimental Result Default Table Secret Bit |
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| Resource Type | Article |
