Object Based Image Steganography with Pixel Polygon Tracing

The paper presents an object based image steganography technique which uses pixel polygonal area tracing in a cover image to select suitable pixels for embedding secret data. The polygon is generated using convex hull for specific selected image pixels and the distortion function is a hybrid between a high efficiency embedding scheme and LSB matching. The proposed technique is simple, yet effective. Experimental results show that the proposed method exhibits high fidelity of the stego-image and performs decently against well-known spatial domain steganalysis techniques for moderate payload capacity.

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