A modified secure digital image steganography based on Discrete Wavelet Transform

Abstract

Steganography, the secret image is embedded in the cover image and transmitted in such a way that the existence of information is undetectable. The digital images, videos, sound files and other computer files can be used as carrier to embed the information. In this paper, we propose a modified secure and high capacity based steganography scheme of hiding a large-size secret image into a small-size cover image. Arnold transformation is performed to scrambles the secret image. Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is performed in both images and followed by Alpha blending operation. Then the Inverse Discrete Wavelet Transformation (IDWT) is applied to get the stego image. We have investigated the performance of our scheme by comparing various qualities of the stego image and cover image. The results show that the proposed algorithm for modified steganography is highly secured with certain strength in addition to good perceptual invisibility.