Steganography is an area where researchers focus on how to develop novel hiding techniques that are aided by the mathematical or computational model. In order to conceal the secret bits in a cover image, the imperceptible property and embedding payload capacity must be maintained. In most of the developed methods, some selective least significant bits (LSBs) of each pixel of the cover image is modified to hide the data which may lead to substantial distortion in the stego-image especially when the payload size is large. Therefore, to attain the trade-off between payload capacity and image quality, the authors have devised a binary lower triangular matrix-based secret message embedding process in which data can be hidden in the color pixel. In this secret message embedding process, the secret data is embedded aided by the binary lower triangular matrix. The formulated mathematical model for the secret message embedding process has ensured a secure embedding technique with reduced aberration on the stego-image. The proposed steganography scheme is preserving significant visual quality while emphasizing the security aspect by adopting an indirect data-hiding mechanism in contrast to the conventional mechanism. Furthermore, for the betterment of the visual properties of the stego-image, we have generically extended the formulation and tested it to check the visual quality. The empirical results of the proposed steganography scheme depict outcomes satisfactorily for the RGB color images. Researchers can explore and apply this novel data-hiding scheme in different data communication applications.


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    Title :

    An RGB Color Image Steganography Scheme by Binary Lower Triangular Matrix


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    Publication date :

    2023-07-01


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    1341823 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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