Energy Distribution Based Dual Image Data Hiding with Weightage Mapping of Secret Data

International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering

© 2024 by SSRG - IJECE Journal

Volume 11 Issue 11

Year of Publication : 2024

Authors : A. I. Mujeebudheen Khan, K. Siva Sankar

10.14445/23488549/IJECE-V11I11P120

How to Cite?

A. I. Mujeebudheen Khan, K. Siva Sankar, "Energy Distribution Based Dual Image Data Hiding with Weightage Mapping of Secret Data," SSRG International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering, vol. 11,  no. 11, pp. 244-256, 2024. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488549/IJECE-V11I11P120

Abstract:

The swift advancement of information and communication technologies provides exceptional facilities in the field of data transmission systems. Nowadays, confidential information, including national security, scholastics, personal information, and industrial commerce, is exchanged through the internet and within the cloud computing environment. In the wake of technology, especially multimedia, different processes have been developed recently for information hiding and data manipulation. The secret data hiding can be performed using steganography to communicate the authentication-specific, account-specific sensitive information even in the public domain. The current method proposes an energy distribution-based dual image data hiding to solve this problem. The proposed method is designed in two distinct phases: data embedding and data extraction. Each phase is executed with careful processing steps to ensure reversible steganography and preserve the cover image and secret data. The proposed steganography technique effectively preserves the visual quality of the cover images, as demonstrated by high average PSNR values (48.2269 to 48.4770), low MSE values (0.9215 to 0.9807), and high SSIM values (0.9923 to 0.9968), indicating minimal error introduced by the embedding process. This work offers a robust approach to steganography, balancing security and image fidelity.

Keywords:

Dual image data hiding, Cover image, Energy distribution, Weightage mapping, Steganography.

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