TY - GEN
T1 - A Data Hiding Scheme via Reduced Difference Expansion to Improve the Stego Quality
AU - Agustinus, Jeems Terri
AU - Mafazy, Muhammad Meftah
AU - Haq, Thoha Ikhwanul
AU - Croix, Ntivuguruzwa Jean De La
AU - Ahmad, Tohari
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Protecting secret data has assumed heightened significance within network security, owing to challenges associated with breaches of network usage policies and unauthorized access to public networks. Various data protection methodologies, including steganography, have been developed in response to these issues. Steganography focuses on securely transmitting secret messages over public networks by concealing them within digital files. A primary challenge of steganography lies in minimizing the distortion of the stego image during the embedding process. This paper introduces an innovative steganographic scheme grounded in reduced difference expansion in response to this challenge. The primary objective is to mitigate the magnitude of differences before embedding secret data, thereby enhancing the overall effectiveness of the concealment process. The experimental findings from this study reveal superior stego image quality, evidenced by a peak signal-to-noise ratio of 62.34 decibels (dB). This result represents a notable advancement over existing methodologies, highlighting the method's outperformance.
AB - Protecting secret data has assumed heightened significance within network security, owing to challenges associated with breaches of network usage policies and unauthorized access to public networks. Various data protection methodologies, including steganography, have been developed in response to these issues. Steganography focuses on securely transmitting secret messages over public networks by concealing them within digital files. A primary challenge of steganography lies in minimizing the distortion of the stego image during the embedding process. This paper introduces an innovative steganographic scheme grounded in reduced difference expansion in response to this challenge. The primary objective is to mitigate the magnitude of differences before embedding secret data, thereby enhancing the overall effectiveness of the concealment process. The experimental findings from this study reveal superior stego image quality, evidenced by a peak signal-to-noise ratio of 62.34 decibels (dB). This result represents a notable advancement over existing methodologies, highlighting the method's outperformance.
KW - Network infrastructure
KW - data protection
KW - difference expansion
KW - national security
KW - steganography
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85186973727&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICMNWC60182.2023.10435709
DO - 10.1109/ICMNWC60182.2023.10435709
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85186973727
T3 - 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Networks and Wireless Communications, ICMNWC 2023
BT - 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Networks and Wireless Communications, ICMNWC 2023
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Networks and Wireless Communications, ICMNWC 2023
Y2 - 4 December 2023 through 5 December 2023
ER -