Survey on Encoding Binary Data within a Digital Image Using Deep Steganography and Multilayered Neural Network

Abstract

Abstract: An image is the most popular media format amongst the current modern digital generation. Encoding binary data within an image is an easy way to hide the secret image. Broadly speaking, steganography is the practice of concealing a file, message, image, or video within another file, message, image, or video. Steganography helps us as the intended secret message does not attract attention to itself as an object of scrutiny. Plainly visible encrypted messages might be better protected but they arouse interest and may in themselves be incriminating in countries in which encryption is illegal. In other words, steganography is more discreet than cryptography when we want to send secret information while also being easier to extract. The usual implementations tend to significantly lose the image quality and are also easily detectable. However, this implementation makes efforts to overcome the existing problems of image steganography with the help of a deep neural network which results in the generation of a final image that is almost identical to the original image and isn’t detectable easily.