Data hiding, a form of steganography, embeds data into digital media for the purpose of identification, annotation, security, and copyright. The goal of steganography is to avoid drawing suspicion to the transmission of a hidden message. Digital audio provides a suitable cover for high-throughput steganography. In this paper a high robustness system against the attackers in hiding of color images is presented. We used the multi-resolution discrete wavelet transform in hiding process. The JPEG format type for color images and WAV format for speech cover signal that used in test of system. Programs and graphics are executed by using MATLAB version 6.5 programs.
In the last couple decades, several successful steganography approaches have been proposed. Least Significant Bit (LSB) Insertion technique has been deployed due to its simplicity in implementation and reasonable payload capacity. The most important design parameter in LSB techniques is the embedding location selection criterion. In this work, LSB insertion technique is proposed which is based on selecting the embedding locations depending on the weights of coefficients in Cosine domain (2D DCT). The cover image is transformed to the Cosine domain (by 2D DCT) and predefined number of coefficients are selected to embed the secret message (which is in the binary form). Those weights are the outputs of an adaptive algorithm that analyses the cover image in two domains (Haar and Cosine). Coefficients, in the Cosine transform domain, with small weights are selected. The proposed approach is tested with samples from the BOSSbase, and a custom-built databases. Two metrics are utilized to show the effectiveness of the technique, namely, Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), and Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR). In addition, human visual inspection of the result image is also considered. As shown in the results, the proposed approach performs better, in terms of (RMSE, and PSNR) than commonly employed truncation and energy based methods.