King JUNG's History

Steganography is the method of hiding secret data in other data, such as video or an image. A reversible data hiding method can extract the cover image from a stego-image without distortion after extracting the hidden data. In this paper a semi-reversible data hiding method that utilizes interpolation and the least significant substitution technique is proposed. First, interpolation methods are used to scale up and down the cover image before hiding secret data for a higher capacity and quality. Secondly, the LSB substitution method is used to embed secret data. Experimental results show that the proposed method can embed a large amount of secret data while keeping very high visual quality, where the PSNR is guaranteed to be 37.54dB (k=3) and 43.94dB (k=2).

Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2014 (SCIE) (online)

In this paper we propose a data hiding method that utilizes image interpolation and an edge detection algorithm. Image interpolation algorithm enlarges a cover image before hiding secret data in order to embed a large amount of secret data. Edge detection algorithm is applied to improve a quality of stego-image. Experimental results show that the proposed method can embed a large amount of secret data while keeping visual quality better than previous works. We demonstrate that the average capacity is 391,115bits, and the PSNR and quality index are 44.71dB, 0.9568 for gray images when threshold value is 4 and the embedding bits are given to 2 respectively.

Multimedia Tools and Applications 2014 (SCIE) (online)

Data hiding in two-colour images is difficult since 1 pixel requires only 1 bit representation and it is easy to detect for pixel distortion. In this paper, we describe a new data hiding method for two-colour images by two-stage referencing. The cover image is partitioned into n x n non-overlapping sub-blocks, and we calculate difference values by two stages for all pixels to find the suitable replacement pixel. The two-stage referencing is to obtain difference values that are different with the current pixel value for neighbouring pixels with n x n and
(n+2) x (n+2). These two difference values are used to embed a secret bit on the sub-block. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a good visual quality for the stego-image.

The Imaging Science Journal, vol. 61 (2013) 475-483 (SCI)
ISSN : 1368-2199 (http://www.maney.co.uk)