DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER
SCIENCE
CSEN 5303 STUDIES ON CURRENT RESEARCH
SECTION -602
PROJECT-1
IMAGE STEGANOGRAPHY USING LSB TECHNIQUES
Professor: Mais Nijim
Done by
Vivek Simha Pathi (K00511427)
Mahesh Kumar Parikipandla (K00513564)
Bhaveshkar Kongari (K00513702)
Abstract:
Steganography has recently turn out to be an excellent field of
science that is used to shield data from illegal entry. Steganography
is described as the skill of communication which involves concealing
knowledge in a different medium for instance textual, image, audio,
video, or network in order not to provoke any trace, whereas
steganalysis is the discipline of destroying the steganographic
mechanism to expose the undisclosed communication. The
efficiency of a steganography procedure is measured utilizing 3 key
criteria, they include payload efficiency, image excellence
calculation, and degree of protection. This investigation is
concentrated on image steganography which is extremely accepted
in the steganography field. The Least Significant Bit (LSB) approach is
mainly the effectual method employed to entrench the undisclosed
communication. Therefore, we focused on the Least Significant Bit
steganography algorithm thereby increasing its performance by
proposing a modified Least Significant Bit steganography called
Circular Shift LSB. The study also elucidated the LSB entrenching
procedure and presented the assessment outcomes for LSB text
steganography for different cover object formats such as .png,
.bmp, and .jpeg. This has more comprehensive information on
different cover image formats, focused on LSB.
A comparative assessment was carried out to establish the
usefulness of the suggested approaches. The success of the
projected approach was appraised by the computation of mean
square error (MSE) and PSNR (peak signal to noise ratio). The
investigation showed that the LSB methods improved PSNR and
MSE. Furthermore, PSNR error metrics were high and MSE was low
indicating strong and robust cover image quality which makes the
image highly imperceptible to human eyes or intruders.
Keywords: Steganography, Least Significant Bit, PSNR, MSE,
Project Summary:
Figure 1 shows the embedding phase of the proposed system while figure 2 shows
the extraction phase of the system. In the embedding phase the cover image and
the undisclosed message are read into the system after which the undisclosed
message is translated into ASCII. The LSB of cover image is replaced with the
undisclosed message bits and the result is stego image. In the extraction phase, the
stego image is read in and the LSB of each stego pixel is measured after which the
extraction process is conducted, and the result is the undisclosed message initially
hidden.
Conclusion:
This study examined modified Least Significant Bit (LSB) steganography for
entrenching medical information in different concealment image formats such as
.bmp, .png, .jpeg. The comparison between the PSNR and MSE got from this study
was compared and the result was also evaluated with previous concealment image
formats used by other researchers. The following outcomes were deduced from this
study: Firstly, it was illustrated that this modified LSB method called circular shift
algorithm performed better than previous research when compared with them.
Secondly, it was deduced that concealment image with .png format is more robust
in masking textual information that is it hides textual information better when
compared with other image formats because it had the highest PSNR and the lower
MSE which are the two metrics used in evaluate the performance of the system
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