IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems 2007 E90-D(4):783-786; doi:10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.4.783

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Copyright © 2007 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Regular Section -- Letters -- Application Information Security

JPEG2000 Steganography which Preserves Histograms of DWT Coefficients

Hideki NODA¹, Yohsuke TSUKAMIZU² and Michiharu NIIMI¹

¹ The authors are with the Department of Systems Innovation and Informatics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka-shi, 820–8502 Japan. E-mail: noda{at}mip.ces.kyutech.ac.jp, ² The author is with the Department of E.E. and Computer Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu-shi, 804–8550 Japan.

This paper presents two steganographic methods for JPEG2000 still images which approximately preserve histograms of discrete wavelet transform coefficients. Compared with a conventional JPEG2000 steganography, the two methods show better histogram preservation. The proposed methods are promising candidates for secure JPEG2000 steganography against histogram-based attack.

Key Words: steganography, JPEG2000, information hiding, histogram preservation, quantization index modulation

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Manuscript received August 17, 2006. Manuscript revised December 7, 2006.

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