A secure image steganography technique using Integer Wavelet Transform

S. Hemalatha; A. Renuka; U. Dinesh Acharya; Priya R. Kamath

doi:10.1109/WICT.2012.6409175

A secure image steganography technique using Integer Wavelet Transform

S. Hemalatha, A. Renuka, U. Dinesh Acharya, Priya R. Kamath

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal

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This paper proposes a secure image steganography technique to hide a secret image using the key. The secret image itself is not hidden, instead a key is generated and the key is hidden in the cover image. Using the key the secret image can be extracted. Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT) is used to hide the key. So it is very secure and robust because no one can realize the hidden information and it cannot be lost due to noise or any signal processing operations. Experimental results show very good Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), which is a measure of security. In this technique the secret information is hidden in the middle bit-planes of the integer wavelet coefficients in high frequency sub-bands.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2012 World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies, WICT 2012
Pages	755-758
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WICT.2012.6409175
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	2012 World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies, WICT 2012 - Trivandrum, India Duration: 30-10-2012 → 02-11-2012

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Conference	2012 World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies, WICT 2012
Country/Territory	India
City	Trivandrum
Period	30-10-12 → 02-11-12

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Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems

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Hemalatha, S , Renuka, A , Dinesh Acharya, U & Kamath, PR 2012, A secure image steganography technique using Integer Wavelet Transform. in Proceedings of the 2012 World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies, WICT 2012., 6409175, pp. 755-758, 2012 World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies, WICT 2012, Trivandrum, India, 30-10-12. https://doi.org/10.1109/WICT.2012.6409175

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