TY - GEN
T1 - Secret Message Protection using Fuzzy Logic and Difference Expansion in Digital Images
AU - De La Croix, Ntivuguruzwa Jean
AU - Islamy, Chaidir Chalaf
AU - Ahmad, Tohari
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Secrete message protection has become a focal point of the network security domain due to the problems of violating the network use policies and unauthorized access of the public network. These problems have led to data protection techniques such as cryptography, and steganography. Cryptography consists of encrypting secrete message to a ciphertext format and steganography consists of concealing the secrete message in codes that make up a digital file, such as an image, audio, and video. Steganography, which is different from cryptography, ensures hiding a secret message for secure transmission over the public network. This paper presents a steganographic approach using digital images for data hiding that aims to providing higher performance by combining fuzzy logic type I to pre-process the cover image and difference expansion techniques. The previous methods have used the original cover image to embed the secrete message. This paper provides a new method that first identifies the edges of a cover image and then proceeds with a difference expansion to embed the secrete message. The experimental results of this work identified an improvement of 10% of the existing method based on increased payload capacity and the visibility of the stego image.
AB - Secrete message protection has become a focal point of the network security domain due to the problems of violating the network use policies and unauthorized access of the public network. These problems have led to data protection techniques such as cryptography, and steganography. Cryptography consists of encrypting secrete message to a ciphertext format and steganography consists of concealing the secrete message in codes that make up a digital file, such as an image, audio, and video. Steganography, which is different from cryptography, ensures hiding a secret message for secure transmission over the public network. This paper presents a steganographic approach using digital images for data hiding that aims to providing higher performance by combining fuzzy logic type I to pre-process the cover image and difference expansion techniques. The previous methods have used the original cover image to embed the secrete message. This paper provides a new method that first identifies the edges of a cover image and then proceeds with a difference expansion to embed the secrete message. The experimental results of this work identified an improvement of 10% of the existing method based on increased payload capacity and the visibility of the stego image.
KW - Data hiding
KW - data security
KW - difference expansion
KW - fuzzy logic
KW - image processing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85133975514&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/NIGERCON54645.2022.9803151
DO - 10.1109/NIGERCON54645.2022.9803151
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85133975514
T3 - Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Nigeria 4th International Conference on Disruptive Technologies for Sustainable Development, NIGERCON 2022
BT - Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Nigeria 4th International Conference on Disruptive Technologies for Sustainable Development, NIGERCON 2022
A2 - Okafor, Kennedy Chinedu
A2 - Achumba, Ifeyinwa E.
A2 - Adeshina, Steve A.
A2 - Longe, Omowunmi Mary
A2 - Nasir, Faruk
A2 - Ayogu, Ikechukwu Ignatius
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 4th IEEE Nigeria International Conference on Disruptive Technologies for Sustainable Development, NIGERCON 2022
Y2 - 17 May 2022 through 19 May 2022
ER -
