Title: A robust semi fragile lossless image data hiding approach

Authors: Pushkar Dixit; Nishant Singh; Jay Prakash Gupta; Dev Drume Agrawal; Vinay Kumar

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology Agra College, Moti Katra Road, Captain Naresh Rd, Mantola, Agra, Uttar Pradesh 282002, India ' Department of Computer Engineering and Applications, Poornima Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sitapura, Poornima Marg, Sitapura, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302022, India ' Infosys Limited, Pune, Maharashtra 411057, India ' GLA University, 17KM Stone, NH-2, Chaumuhan, Mathura, GLA Rd., Bharthia, Uttar Pradesh 281406, India ' GLA University, 17KM Stone, NH-2, Chaumuhan, Mathura, GLA Rd., Bharthia, Uttar Pradesh 281406, India

Abstract: Internet security finds it difficult to keep the information secure and to maintain the integrity of the data. Sending messages over the internet secretly is one of the major tasks as it is widely used for passing the message. In order to achieve security there must be some mechanism to protect the data against unauthorised access. A lossless data hiding scheme is proposed in this paper which has a higher embedding capacity than other schemes. Unlike other schemes that are used for embedding fixed amount of data, the proposed data hiding method is block-based approach and it uses a variable data embedding in different blocks which reduces the chances of distortion and increases the hiding capacity of the image. When the data is recovered the original image can be restored without any distortion. Our experimental results indicate that the proposed solution can significantly support the data hiding problem. We achieved good PSNR while hiding large amount of data into smoother regions.

Keywords: data security; lossless data hiding; semi fragile; encryption; decryption; internet security; information security; data integrity; image data hiding.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCVR.2015.067148

International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics, 2015 Vol.5 No.1, pp.1 - 22

Received: 26 Jun 2013
Accepted: 04 Feb 2014
Published online: 31 Mar 2015 *

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