This paper proposes a large payload data embedding method for color images. Under the fast advancement of digital equipments, color images have become a common medium in many applications. A color image can be represented in different color systems, for instance, RGB and YUV color systems. The proposed method modifies the blue value of the color pixel in order to imply the secret data because the blue value is an insensitive color to human eyes. Furthermore, the number of secret bits that can be embedded into a cover pixel is dynamic so the proposed method tries to embed the secret data as many as possible. The proposed method can be applied to both RGB and YUV color systems. However, for anti-stegoanalysis reason, the RGB color system is suitable for the proposed high capacity data embedding method with lower image distortion. The experimental results show that the proposed method is superior to other methods we compared in terms of embedding capacity and visual quality.
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Embedding large amounts of secret data into a cover image with low distortion is an important research issue in steganography. The proposed scheme uses two clustering technologies - similar and dissimilar clustering - to enhance hiding capacity as provided by Du and Hsu’s scheme. In general, the hiding capacity of our proposed scheme is higher than that of Du and Hsu’s scheme, about 16 Kb for the same image quality. In addition, the image quality of our proposed scheme is more than provided by the schemes of either Du and Hsu’s or Shie et al., about 2 dB. Moreover, the distortion for each test image in our proposed scheme is always less than those caused by Du and Hsu’s and Shie et al.’s schemes. Experimental results confirm that the proposed scheme is significantly better than earlier works.
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