Analysis of Encoding Methods Contributing to the Payload of Steganography

Abstract:

In this paper, we compare Huffman coding and Arithmetic coding with ASCII coding to observe their contribution to steganography. This way is to compress the embedded information first for enhance the payload of a cover image. There are many wonderful coding methods to compress this kind of string, such as Huffman coding and Arithmetic coding. The experiment results indicate that Huffman coding and Arithmetic coding as an important preprocess step of steganography can effectively reduce the amount of secret information with efficient encoding performance. And a theory opinion related to payload calculation is proposed which can be used to describe the relationship among the three parameters of steganography: imperceptibility, information embedding efficiency and payload.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 756-759)
• Pages: 1912-1915
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.756-759.1912
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Hong Jun Luo, Hai Cheng Xu, Jian Hong Sun
• Keywords: Arithmetic Coding, ASCII, Coding, Huffman, Steganography

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