Abstract
Information hiding is a crucial technology in the field of information security. Embedding capacity and stego-image quality are two key performance metrics in information hiding. In recent years, many information-hiding methods have been proposed to enhance embedding capacity and stego-image quality. However, through the study of these methods, we found that there is still room for improvement in terms of performance. This paper proposes a high-capacity information-hiding method based on a chunking matrix (CM). CM divides a 256×256 matrix into blocks, where each block contains k×k corresponding secret numbers. A pair of pixels is extracted from the original image and used as the coordinates for the matrix. In the search domain at that coordinate position, the corresponding secret number is found, and the matrix coordinates of the secret information are used as the pixel value for the stego-image. This paper evaluates the security and effectiveness of CM through measures such as embedding capacity, peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), and bit-plane analysis. CM achieves a maximum embedding capacity of 4.806 bits per pixel (bpp) and maintains a PSNR value of more than 30 dB. Furthermore, the bit-plane analysis fails to detect the presence of the information hidden using CM method.
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