Payload Enhancement on Least Significant Bit Image Steganography using Edge Area Dilation

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Abstract

This research proposes a method to enhance the payload message by embedding messages on the dilated edge areas by the Least Significant Bit (LSB) method. To add security aspects to messages, messages are not embedded directly on the LSB but encrypted with XOR operations with Most Significant Bit (MSB). The experimental results of the test in this study showed that the dilation process to some extent can increase the payload of 18.65% and the average bpp is 1.42 while maintaining the imperceptibilty quality of stego image with an average PSNR value of about 47 dB, SSIM is 0.9977 and MSE is 1.13.

Author Biography

De Rosal Ignatius Moses Setiadi, Dian Nuswantoro University

Lecturer of Informatics Engineering Department, Faculty of Computer Science,
Dian Nuswantoro University,
Semarang, Indonesia

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2024-04-19

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Image Processing