期刊名称：International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA)
印刷版ISSN：2158-107X
电子版ISSN：2156-5570
出版年度：2019
卷号：10
期号：3
页码：1-5
DOI：10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100301
出版社：Science and Information Society (SAI)
摘要：This paper presents a novel approach for image steganography based on the Least Significant Bit (LSB) method. Most traditional LSB methods choose the initial embedding location of the cover image randomly, and the secret messages are embedded sequentially without considering the image pixels’ values and positions. Our approach utilizes the user-selected seeds in the cover image to avoid the smooth/flat areas where cause a higher detection rate. Then the fast marching method is used to calculate T (the time of arrival of the front of the seeds) and propagate the seeds by computational dynamics. The front propagation process decides the embedding positions of the secret messages. The same algorithm can be used to retrieve the hidden information as well. The coordinates of the seeds are used as the shared key only known to the sender and receiver to add additional security protection. Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) is evaluated to measure the quality of resulting images. The experiments show that the proposed approach generates results with high payload capacity and satisfied imperceptibility.
关键词：Image steganography; LSB; the fast marching method; coordinates; PSNR
