Performance Analysis of LSB-based Data Hiding Techniques

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Performance Analysis of LSB-based Data Hiding Techniques

ABSTRACT

In data hiding methods, least significant bits replacement has been used broadly by combining with other embedding techniques. In this study, performance and comparison of data hiding techniques based on least significant bits modification are analyzed. In experimental results, visual image quality of each pixel layer is tested to show the effect on the embedding layer in each pixel. The embedding capacity and histogram analysis are compared with previous works.

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data hiding, steganography, least significant bit, information hiding, steganalysis

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Cite this paper

Ki-Hyun Jung. (2017) Performance Analysis of LSB-based Data Hiding Techniques. International Journal of Signal Processing, 2, 129-132