Authors
Tzu-Chuen Lu1, Chin-Chen Chang2, Yi-Long Liu3
1Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, 41349, Taiwan, R.O.C. tclu@cyut.edu.tw
2Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung, 40724, Taiwan, R.O.C. ccc@cs.ccu.edu.tw
3Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, 621, Taiwan, R.O.C. lylu91@cs.ccu.edu.tw
Abstract
Information hiding is a technique that embeds secret data in digital media for using in a variety of applications, including ownership protection, authentication, access control, annotation and so on. In this paper, we propose an information hiding scheme based on quantization-based embedding technique to conceal information in gray-scale image. The proposed scheme was tested with a variety of gray images. According to the experimental results, hidden information can be extracted correctly and quickly from the stego image. In addition, the stego image has only a little distortion compared with the cover image. The proposed scheme can not only hide a large amount of information in the cover image, but can also repair the stego image such that the repaired image is almost the same as the cover image.
Keywords
information hiding, steganography, quantization-based embedding