Image steganography based on digital holography and saliency map

Wenbin Zou; Zhaoyong Zhuang; Shuming Jiao; Lu Zhang; Kidiyo Kpalma

doi:10.1117/1.OE.58.1.013102

11 January 2019 Image steganography based on digital holography and saliency map

Wenbin Zou, Zhaoyong Zhuang, Shuming Jiao, Lu Zhang, Kidiyo Kpalma

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 58, Issue 1, 013102 (January 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.1.013102

Abstract

A gray-level intensity image can be employed as a host image for hiding a watermark image to protect information security. Past research works demonstrate that a gray-level hidden image can be embedded into the host image by a digital phase-only holography method. However, the fidelity of retrieved watermark image from the host image is not very satisfactory and the host image quality is degraded due to the insertion of external data bits, especially when observers focus on the saliency regions in the host image. To address this problem, we propose a steganography method based on digital holography and the saliency map of the host image. First, we calculate the hidden capacity (number of bits to be replaced) for each host image pixel based on the weighted sum of pixel intensity and saliency value. Next, a multilevel phase-only digital hologram of the watermark image will be calculated by the Gerchberg–Saxton method under the constraint of the hidden capacity of host image. Finally, we embedded the multilevel phase-only digital hologram into the host image by replacing a corresponding number of bits in each pixel. In this way, the host image can preserve good image fidelity for its saliency regions even if we hide a large amount of digital hologram data into the host image. The experimental results show that the quality of retrieved watermark image from the host image and the quality of saliency regions in the watermarked host image, in our proposed scheme, are superior to the state-of-the-art works reported.

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Wenbin Zou, Zhaoyong Zhuang, Shuming Jiao, Lu Zhang, and Kidiyo Kpalma "Image steganography based on digital holography and saliency map," Optical Engineering 58(1), 013102 (11 January 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.1.013102

Received: 23 August 2018; Accepted: 11 December 2018; Published: 11 January 2019

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