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Proceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA) pp 755–763Cite as

Two Stage Color Image Steganography Using DCT (TSCIS-DCT)

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In frequency domain steganography, use of color images for secret data hiding may prove to be a decisive innovation. The proposed concept uses two color images for hiding a color/gray authenticating message/image. The mathematical technique of Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) is applied on each block of size 2x2 taken in row major order from three color planes (Red, Green & Blue) sequentially and from two carrier images alternatively. A single secret message/image bit is fabricated within the transformed real frequency component of each source image byte except the first frequency component of each mask. The first frequency component of each block is used for re-adjustment to maintain the quantum value positive, non-fractional in spatial domain and also to reduce the integrated noise due to embedding. The pseudorandom position of embedding and subsequent extraction is generated by a logical expression. Experimental results of this technique reveal more efficiency compared to other similar technique.

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  1. Dept. of Information Technology, Techno India, EM 4/1 Salt Lake, Sec-V, Kolkata, 700091, India

    Anirban Goswami

  2. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Techno India, EM 4/1 Salt Lake, Sec-V, Kolkata, 700091, India

    Dipankar Pal

  3. Dept. of Engineering and Technological Studies, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia, 741235, West Bengal, India

    Nabin Ghoshal

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  1. Dept of Computer Science Engineering, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences, Vishakapatnam, India

    Suresh Chandra Satapathy

  2. AI Lab, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

    Siba K. Udgata

  3. Bhubaneswar Engineering College, Bhubaneswar, India

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Goswami, A., Pal, D., Ghoshal, N. (2013). Two Stage Color Image Steganography Using DCT (TSCIS-DCT). In: Satapathy, S., Udgata, S., Biswal, B. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA). Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 199. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35314-7_86

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