A Novel Approach of Color Image Hiding using RGB Color planes and DWT
This work addresses steganography for color images, offering an incremental improvement in hiding techniques for secure communication applications.
The paper tackles the problem of hiding color images within other color images by decomposing both into RGB planes and using discrete wavelet transform (DWT) with alpha blending for embedding, resulting in a stego image with acceptable imperceptibility and high security.
This work proposes a wavelet based Steganographic technique for the color image. The true color cover image and the true color secret image both are decomposed into three separate color planes namely R, G and B. Each plane of the images is decomposed into four sub bands using DWT. Each color plane of the secret image is hidden by alpha blending technique in the corresponding sub bands of the respective color planes of the original image. During embedding, secret image is dispersed within the original image depending upon the alpha value. Extraction of the secret image varies according to the alpha value. In this approach the stego image generated is of acceptable level of imperceptibility and distortion compared to the cover image and the overall security is high.