On Hiding Secret Information in Medium Frequency DCT Components Using Least Significant Bits Steganography
Sahib Khan1,*, M A Irfan1, Arslan Arif1, Syed Tahir Hussain Rizvi2, Asma Gul3, Muhammad Naeem4, Nasir Ahmad5
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.118, No.3, pp. 529-546, 2019, DOI:10.31614/cmes.2019.06179
Abstract This work presents a new method of data hiding in digital images, in discrete cosine transform domain. The proposed method uses the least significant bits of the medium frequency components of the cover image for hiding the secret information, while the low and high frequency coefficients are kept unaltered. The unaltered low frequency DCT coefficients preserves the quality of the smooth region of the cover image, while no changes in the high DCT coefficient preserve the quality of the edges. As the medium frequency components have less contribution towards energy and image details, so the… More >