CSIS: Compressed sensing‐based enhanced‐embedding capacity image steganography scheme

Image steganography plays a vital role in securing secret data by embedding it in the cover images. Usually, these images are communicated in a compressed format. Existing techniques achieve this but have low embedding capacity. Hence, the goal here is to enhance the embedding capacity while preserv...

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Published in:IET image processing Vol. 15; no. 9; pp. 1909 - 1925
Main Authors: Agrawal, Rohit, Ahuja, Kapil
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 01.07.2021
Subjects:
Computer vision and image processing techniques
Cryptography
Data security
Image and video coding
Optimisation techniques
ISSN:1751-9659, 1751-9667
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Summary:Image steganography plays a vital role in securing secret data by embedding it in the cover images. Usually, these images are communicated in a compressed format. Existing techniques achieve this but have low embedding capacity. Hence, the goal here is to enhance the embedding capacity while preserving the visual quality of the stego‐image. It is also intended to ensure that the scheme is resistant to steganalysis attacks. This paper proposes a compressed sensing image steganography (CSIS) scheme to achieve these goals. In CSIS, the cover image is sparsified block‐wise, linear measurements are obtained, and then permissible measurements are selected. Next, the secret data is encrypted, and 2 bits of this encrypted data are embedded into each permissible measurement. For the reconstruction of the stego‐image, ADMM and LASSO are used for the resultant optimization problem. Experiments are performed on several standard greyscale images and a colour image. Higher embedding capacity, 1.53 times more compared to the most recent scheme, is achieved. An average of 37.92 dB PSNR value, and average values close to 1 for both the mean SSIM index and the NCC coefficients are obtained, which is considered good. These metrics show that CSIS substantially outperforms existing similar steganography schemes.
ISSN:1751-9659
1751-9667
DOI:10.1049/ipr2.12161