IMPLEMENTATION OF A DISTINCT RGB ENCODING TECHNIQUE FOR DATA HIDING IN IMAGES

Abstract

A new R−weighted Coding Method (RCM) is improved in this study. This Method offers high data hiding capacity and PSNR values. Experimental results show the usefulness and advantage of the proposed method over its classical counterparts, providing high performance, in terms of PSNR and particularly data hiding capacity. RCM has been adopted from an earlier study that well known the LSB (Least Significant Bit) coding technique. This information hiding/embedding method can be used for protecting of any secret data.

Keywords

• Data embedding,data hiding,steganography,RGB Image coding

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