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Steganographic Method Based on Three Directional Embedding  

Jung, Ki-Hyun (영진전문대학 컴퓨터정보계열)
Kim, In-Taek (공군사관학교)
Kim, Jae-Cheol (공군사관학교)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology / v.13, no.2, 2010 , pp. 268-274 More about this Journal
Abstract
A steganographic method using three directional data embedding for gray images is presented in this paper. Cover image is divided into non-overlapping $2\times2$ sub-blocks and the basis pixel is selected to calculate the three different values of each sub-block. Difference values are replaced by embedding the number of secret bits that is referenced by the range table. For the three pixel pairs in the sub-block, the optimal pixel adjustment is preceded to reduce the distortion of visual quality. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a good visual quality and high capacity.
Keywords
Data Hiding; Information Hiding; Watermarking; Steganography; Image Processing;
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