Image Complexity Analysis Based on HVS and Its Application in Steganography

Abstract:

With human eyes has different insensitive to different types of texture, edged and dark area, this paper proposed an image steganography with higher embedding capacity and good stego image quality. In our method, the image blocks was divided into four kinds (texture, edged, dark and smooth), and secret message was embedded with the algorithm of modulus function coincide with wavelet transform. From the experimental results, the complexity notion can distinguish different kinds of blocks precisely, and the steganography method can hide much larger message and maintain a good visual quality of stego image.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 333-335)
• Pages: 1118-1122
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.333-335.1118
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Jun Li, Xiao Yuan Yang
• Keywords: Human Visual System, Image Complexity Measurement, Modulus Function, Steganography

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