scholarly journals Hiding Multi Short Audio Signals in Color Image by using Fast Fourier Transform

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-65
Author(s):  
Enas M. Jamel ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fourier Transform ◽  
Fast Fourier Transform ◽  
Color Image ◽  
Audio Signal ◽  
Cover Image ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Audio Signals ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Reconstructed Signal ◽  
Audio Files

Many purposes require communicating audio files between the users using different applications of social media. The security level of these applications is limited; at the same time many audio files are secured and must be accessed by authorized persons only, while, most present works attempt to hide single audio file in certain cover media. In this paper, a new approach of hiding three audio signals with unequal sizes in single color digital image has been proposed using the frequencies transform of this image. In the proposed approach, the Fast Fourier Transform was adopted where each audio signal is embedded in specific region with high frequencies in the frequency spectrum of the cover image to save much more details of the cover image and avoid any doubts that there is any secret information are hidden inside it. The quality of the stego-image and the extracted audio files are evaluated with the standard evaluation metric. The simulation results shown significant results of these metrics and achieve good imperceptibility and high security of the stego-image. The SNR and SPCC values are considered acceptance that means significant in terms quality and similarity of the reconstructed signal.

scholarly journals Audio Encryption Algorithm Based on Chen Memristor Chaotic System

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Wanying Dai ◽  
Xiangliang Xu ◽  
Xiaoming Song ◽  
Guodong Li
Keyword(s):  
Fourier Transform ◽  
Fast Fourier Transform ◽  
Chaotic System ◽  
Basis Function ◽  
Color Image ◽  
Audio Signal ◽  
Encryption Algorithm ◽  
Audio Signals ◽  
Encryption Algorithms ◽  
Audio Encryption

The data space for audio signals is large, the correlation is strong, and the traditional encryption algorithm cannot meet the needs of efficiency and safety. To solve this problem, an audio encryption algorithm based on Chen memristor chaotic system is proposed. The core idea of the algorithm is to encrypt the audio signal into the color image information. Most of the traditional audio encryption algorithms are transmitted in the form of noise, which makes it easy to attract the attention of attackers. In this paper, a special encryption method is used to obtain higher security. Firstly, the Fast Walsh–Hadamar Transform (FWHT) is used to compress and denoise the signal. Different from the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), FWHT has good energy compression characteristics. In addition, compared with that of the triangular basis function of the Fast Fourier Transform, the rectangular basis function of the FWHT can be more effectively implemented in the digital circuit to transform the reconstructed dual-channel audio signal into the R and B layers of the digital image matrix, respectively. Furthermore, a new Chen memristor chaotic system solves the periodic window problems, such as the limited chaos range and nonuniform distribution. It can generate a mask block with high complexity and fill it into the G layer of the color image matrix to obtain a color audio image. In the next place, combining plaintext information with color audio images, interactive channel shuffling can not only weaken the correlation between adjacent samples, but also effectively resist selective plaintext attacks. Finally, the cryptographic block is used for overlapping diffusion encryption to fill the silence period of the speech signal, so as to obtain the ciphertext audio. Experimental results and comparative analysis show that the algorithm is suitable for different types of audio signals, and can resist many common cryptographic analysis attacks. Compared with that of similar audio encryption algorithms, the security index of the algorithm is better, and the efficiency of the algorithm is greatly improved.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF CRYPTOGRAPHY AND STEGANOGRAPHY FOR TEXT ON COVER IMAGE USING AES AND F5 ALGORITHM

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ratna Astuti Nugrahaeni ◽  
R. Rumani M. R. Rumani M. ◽  
Surya Michrandi Nasution
Keyword(s):  
Cover Image ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Original Image ◽  
File Size ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Size Change ◽  
Avalanche Effect ◽  
Aes Algorithm ◽  
Significant Difference

This journal explains about implementation that combine both cryptography and steganography method for texton cover image to increase the security level. Text will be encrypted with AES algorithm, and then it will be embedded to the cover image using F5 algorithm. The implemented AES algorithm has a good performance, with Avalanche Effect value ranges from 0.43 � 0.59. The resulting image, or stego image, has a very similar histogram with the original image, so there is no significant difference between the two of them. However, the file size change about 1.25 � 3.25 times larger than theoriginal image. If noise or disruption is given to stego image, the information can not be extracted.Keywords: cryptography, steganography, AES, F5

scholarly journals An Image Style Transfer Network Using Multilevel Noise Encoding and Its Application in Coverless Steganography

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1152
Author(s):  
Shanqing Zhang ◽  
Shengqi Su ◽  
Li Li ◽  
Qili Zhou ◽  
Jianfeng Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Color Image ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Cover Image ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Style Transfer ◽  
Secret Information ◽  
Residual Learning ◽  
Short Period

Most of the existing image steganographic approaches embed the secret information imperceptibly into a cover image by slightly modifying its content. However, the modification traces will cause some distortion in the stego-image, especially when embedding color image data that usually contain thousands of bits, which makes successful steganalysis possible. A coverless steganographic approach without any modification for transmitting secret color image is proposed. We propose a diversity image style transfer network using multilevel noise encoding. The network consists of a generator and a loss network. A multilevel noise to encode matching the subsequent convolutional neural network scale is used in the generator. The diversity loss is increased in the loss network so that the network can generate diverse image style transfer results. Residual learning is introduced so that the training speed of network is significantly improved. Experiments show that the network can generate stable results with uniform texture distribution in a short period of time. These image style transfer results can be integrated into our coverless steganography scheme. The performance of our steganography scheme is good in steganographic capacity, anti-steganalysis, security, and robustness.

scholarly journals Improved Deep Hiding/Extraction Algorithm to Enhance the Payload Capacity and Security Level of Hidden Information

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marwa Ahmad ◽  
Nameer N. EL-Emam ◽  
Ali F. AL-Azawi
Keyword(s):  
Data Encryption ◽  
Cover Image ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Image Size ◽  
Secret Data ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Colour Image ◽  
Extraction Algorithm ◽  
Payload Capacity

Steganography algorithms have become a significant technique for preventing illegal users from obtaining secret data. In this paper, a deep hiding/extraction algorithm has been improved (IDHEA) to hide a secret message in colour images. The proposed algorithm has been applied to enhance the payload capacity and reduce the time complexity. Modified LSB (MLSB) is based on disseminating secret data randomly on a cover-image and has been proposed to replace a number of bits per byte (Nbpb), up to 4 bits, to increase payload capacity and make it difficult to access the hiding data. The number of levels of the IDHEA algorithm has been specified randomly; each level uses a colour image, and from one level to the next, the image size is expanded, where this algorithm starts with a small size of a cover-image and increases the size of the image gradually or suddenly at the next level, according to an enlargement ratio. Lossless image compression based on the run-length encoding algorithm and Gzip has been applied to enable the size of the data that is hiding at the next level, and data encryption using the Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm (AES) has been introduced at each level to enhance the security level. Thus, the effectiveness of the proposed IDHEA algorithm has been measured at the last level, and the performance of the proposed hiding algorithm has been checked by many statistical and visual measures in terms of the embedding capacity and imperceptibility. Comparisons between the proposed approach and previous work have been implemented; it appears that the intended approach is better than the previously modified LSB algorithms, and it works against visual and statistical attacks with excellent performance achieved by using the detection error (PE). Furthermore, the results confirmed that the stego-image with high imperceptibility has reached even a payload capacity that is large and replaces twelve bits per pixel (12-bpp). Moreover, testing is confirmed in that the proposed algorithm can embed secret data efficiently with better visual quality.

scholarly journals An approach for Secured Image Transmission: A High Capacitive and Confidentiality based Image Steganography using Private Stego-Key

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 4190-4201
Author(s):  
G.Aparna Et.al
Keyword(s):  
Image Transmission ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Cover Image ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Adaptive Steganography ◽  
Stego Key ◽  
Image Pixels ◽  
High Embedding Capacity

In the proposed paper an approach for image transmission with security and also improvement of the gray-scale (8-bit image) image flexible stenographic system using LSB approach. In this process a secret key of 80 bits is applied while embedding the message into the cover image. To provide high security and also confidentiality of the data a key stego-key is applied. The proposed method the information bits are embedded adaptively into the cover-image pixels. With this method a high embedding capacity in terms of hiding the data is provided and also better imperceptibility is also achieved. The major advantage of this method verifies by the Security method of Digital Signature. It is to be verified whether the attacker has made  a trials to change the Secret information in the  present inside the stego-image which is intended to be kept secret throughout the communication process. In this technique the embedding process to hide the message data present in the transformed spatial domain of the cover image and makes use of a simple Exclusive-OR  operation based on  Security checking method of  verifying the signature digitally by using key size value of 140 bits is used to check the integrity from the stego-image. The confidential data which is embedded can be retrieved from stego-images. The security level is enhanced by using the stego key and by adaptive steganography data inconspicuousness is improved.

An Improved Method for Combine (LSB and MSB) Based on Color Image RGB

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1B) ◽  
pp. 231-242
Author(s):  
Sally A. Mahdi ◽  
Maisa’a A. Khodher
Keyword(s):  
Color Image ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Cover Image ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Improved Method ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Measure Entropy

Image steganography is the art of hiding data into an image by using the secret key. This paper presents two techniques that combine the most significant bit (MSB) as well as the least significant bit (LSB) based on a color image (24bit for RGB). The presented study proposes a novel method to combine (LSB and MSB) bits based on check MSB values and replace bits from LSB with a secret message. The result of this proposed method that made not affect quality stego -image based on the resulting histogram that shows a match between the cover image and stego- image and more secure because not hidden in all image. The factors were used Mean Square Error (MSE), Compute Payload, in addition to Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR). The PSNR’s rate is high and MSE is less. The result of this paper when applying on the different image gives high PSNR of 87.141 and less MSE of 0.00012 when inserting message 80 bits and reduction value PSNR of 72.023 and MSE of 0.0040 when inserting message 1200 bits and measure entropy is the same value for cover image and stego –image then this method is more security for the attacker.

scholarly journals Efficient Steganography Scheme for Color Images based on Wavelets and Chaotic Maps

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Hikmat N. Abdullah ◽  
Sura F. Yousif ◽  
Alejandro A. Valenzuela
Keyword(s):  
Color Image ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Color Images ◽  
Cover Image ◽  
Discrete Wavelet ◽  
Transform Domain ◽  
Single Image ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
Chaotic Sequences

In this paper, a combination of spatial domain as well as transformation domain with the aid of chaotic sequences is used to propose an efficient steganography scheme for color images. The transform domain uses Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) for embedding the cover and secret images. Chaotic sequences are used for two purposes: first, to scramble the secret color image before hiding. Second, to randomly select the locations of the cover image for embedding. The two images are then merged together into a single image and the stego image is formed by applying IDWT. The secret image is extracted from the stego image without the need to the original cover image. The simulation results are evaluated in terms of Mean Square Error (MSE), correlation, and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) demonstrate that the proposed scheme has better robustness than the previous schemes in the literature in the presence of common image attacks including filtering and noise attacks. The obtained results for maximum PSNR and correlation were 76.8 dB and 99.99% for the stego image while for the extracted secret image were 55.4 dB and 100%.

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