Local binary pattern operator based steganography in wavelet domain

In today's digital era, secret data hiding has become important part of information security. Local Binary Pattern (LBP) operator which exploits the local intensity relationship of a coordinate with its neighborhood has been successfully implemented in texture classification and image retrieval. This paper proposes a novel steganographic technique based on LBP operator in wavelet domain for embedding and extraction of secret information. Proposed technique has been implemented in Matlab. Image quality metrics PSNR and SSIM are used to compare proposed technique with LSB substitution method.

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