Steganography by Constructing Texture Images
Received date: 2016-08-06
Revised date: 2016-08-19
Online published: 2016-09-30
This paper proposes a new steganography method using texture construction. The data-hider first constructs a database of elements containing many different patterns and features used to represent secret bits. The data-hider selects patterns and features from the database according to the secret message. The selected elements are painted onto specified positions on a white paper, and some background elements added to the painted paper. With pre-defined transforming functions, the data-hider transforms the painted image to construct a stego-image. On the receiver side, secret messages can be extracted from the stego-image using the inverse operations. Experimental results show that the constructed stego-image has good visual effects, and the secret messages can be properly hidden into the image. Meanwhile, any amount of message can be hidden by choosing different parameters.
Key words： information hiding; texture synthesis; steganography
PAN Lin, QIAN Zhen-xing, ZHANG Xin-peng . Steganography by Constructing Texture Images[J]. Journal of Applied Sciences, 2016 , 34(5) : 625 -632 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2016.05.015
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