Perturbed Quantization (PQ) steganography scheme is almost undetectable with the current steganalysis methods. We present a new steganalysis method for detection of this data hiding algorithm. We show that the PQ method distorts the dependencies of DCT coefficient values; especially changes much lower than significant bit planes. For steganalysis of PQ, we propose features extraction from the e...

Motion estimation (ME) using bit-plane matching (BPM) algorithm has been proposed. The bit-plane matching algorithm transforms original images into bit-planes and performs a fast block matching process using the bit-planes. Two-bit transform (2BT) transforms an image frame into two bit planes with local window mean and variance values as threshold values. Constrained two-bit transform (C2BT) wa...

The science of hiding secret information in another message is known as Steganography; hence the presence of secret information is concealed. It is the method of hiding cognitive content in same or another media to avoid recognition by the intruders. This paper introduces new method wherein irreversible steganography is used to hide an image in the same medium so that the secret data is masked....

In this paper, a few novel data hiding techniques are proposed. These techniques are improvements over the classical LSB data hiding technique and the Fibonacci LSB data-hiding technique proposed by Battisti et al. [1]. The classical LSB technique is the simplest, but using this technique it is possible to embed only in first few bit-planes, since image quality becomes drastically distorted whe...

Introduction Automated methods for sperm characterization in microscopic videos have some limitations such as: low contrast of the video frames and possibility of neighboring sperms to touch each other. In this paper a new method is introduced for detection of sperms in microscopic videos. Materials and Methods In this work, first microscopic videos are captured from specimens of human semen. S...

Steganography is the art and science information in an appropriate cover carrier like image, text, audio and video media. In this work the authors propose a new image based steganographic method for hiding information within the complex bit planes of the image. After slicing into bit planes the cover image is analyzed to extract the most complex planes in decreasing order based on their bit pla...

Today among various medium of data transmission or storage our sensitive data are not secured with a third-party, that we used to take help of. Cryptography plays an important role in securing our data from malicious attack. This paper present a partial image encryption based on bit-planes permutation using Peter De Jong chaotic map for secure image transmission and storage. The proposed partia...

This paper addresses a novel steganography method for images. Most statistical steganalysis algorithms are strong to defeat previous steganography algorithms. RS steganalysis and pixel difference histogram analysis are two well-known statistical steganalysis algorithms which detect non-random changes caused by embedding a secret message into cover image. In this paper, we first explain how two ...

In this paper, we present a Novel method to detect the existence of hidden message in LSB steganography. The key element of the proposed method is the power Law: Zipf’s law.The detection theory is based on statistical analysis of pixel patterns using a Zipfness measure between successive bit planes. The basic idea is that, the correlation between bit planes as well as the binary texture charact...