Enhancement of Security of Digital Data with Steganography Technique

In this era of Internet and Technology there is a need to secure digital data from unauthorized users. This can be done with the use steganography techniques. The selling of softwares in the form of digital images and video sequences is very much enhanced due to the cost effectiveness and improvement in technology. But this digital are also at risk to accidental attacks. Nowadays the most important concern is the protection of digital data and therefore it is gaining interest among researchers. The storing and transferring of digital data, needs many security concerns that are sensitive and if this data is lost, counterfeited, or hacked, it may be impossible to recover. The security of this transmitted data can be increased by the application of steganography techniques. In this the digital data can be hidden in the host image and this image is transferred to the receiving end instead of the actual software data. Then by using a secret key, the hidden data are extracted accurately from the carrier image. The data is hidden in such a way to minimize the degradation of actual data. In this paper a method is described to handle attacks on the carrier image

A Short Survey on Perceptual Hash Function

The authentication of digital image has become more important as these images can be easily manipulated by using image processing tools leading to various problems such as copyright infringement and hostile tampering to the image contents. It is almost impossible to distinguish subjectively which images are original and which have been manipulated. There are several cryptographic hash functions that map the input data to short binary strings but these traditional cryptographic hash functions is not suitable for image authentication as they are very sensitive to every single bit of input data. When using a cryptographic hash function, the change of even one bit of the original data results in a radically different value. A modified image should be detected as authentic by the hash function and at the same time must be robust against incidental and legitimate modifications on multimedia data. The main aim of this paper is to present a survey of perceptual hash functions for image authentication.Keywords: Hash function, image authentication*Cite as: Arambam Neelima, Kh. Manglem Singh, “A Short Survey on Perceptual Hash Function†ADBU-J.Engg Tech, 1(2014) 0011405(8pp

Authentication with Distortion Criteria

In a variety of applications, there is a need to authenticate content that has experienced legitimate editing in addition to potential tampering attacks. We develop one formulation of this problem based on a strict notion of security, and characterize and interpret the associated information-theoretic performance limits. The results can be viewed as a natural generalization of classical approaches to traditional authentication. Additional insights into the structure of such systems and their behavior are obtained by further specializing the results to Bernoulli and Gaussian cases. The associated systems are shown to be substantially better in terms of performance and/or security than commonly advocated approaches based on data hiding and digital watermarking. Finally, the formulation is extended to obtain efficient layered authentication system constructions.Comment: 22 pages, 10 figure

An Image Forensic Scheme with Robust and Fragile Watermarking for Business Documents

This paper proposes an image forensic scheme with both robust and fragile watermarking techniques for business documents. Through a dual watermarking approach, the proposed scheme can achieve image forensics objectives of (a) identification of source; (b) authentication of documents; and (c) locating the tempered areas of documents due to attacks. An example is presented to prove the concepts of the proposed scheme. Keywords: Image Forensics, Fragile and Robust Watermarking, Business Document

Motion JPEG Video Authentication based on Quantization Matrix Watermarking: Application in Robotics

International audienceThe images authentication transmitted through the communication networks must verify the proof of the originality and robustness against the hacker attacks. The existing techniques such as the cryptographic methods are not sufficient. An effectiveness and robust solution is proposed in this paper. This solution is based on the watermarking of the video and especially the Motion JPEG stream. We focused on one of the major properties of the JPEG image which is the quantization matrix. The watermarking is performed on this matrix. We detail the obtained results against several attacks

Average Hashing for Perceptual Image Similarity in Mobile Phone Application

Common problem occurs in almost all mobile devices was duplicated data or files. Such as duplicated images that often happen by event like capturing perceptually similar photos by the user, or images that shared several times in messaging applications chat groups. This common problem can be solved by manually search and remove the duplicated images one by one by the users, but better solutions is by building automated application that search perceptually similar images then provide the result to the users. We study and implementing Average Hashing and Hamming distance for perceptual image similarity into application under mobile phone platform to realize the solution for the problem. The result was very promising in speed and accuracy for finding perceptually similar images under limited resources device like mobile phone

Privacy-preserving architecture for forensic image recognition

Forensic image recognition is an important tool in many areas of law enforcement where an agency wants to prosecute possessors of illegal images. The recognition of illegal images that might have undergone human imperceptible changes (e.g., a JPEG-recompression) is commonly done by computing a perceptual image hash function of a given image and then matching this hash with perceptual hash values in a database of previously collected illegal images. To prevent privacy violation, agencies should only learn about images that have been reliably detected as illegal and nothing else. In this work, we argue that the prevalent presence of separate departments in such agencies can be used to enforce the need-to-know principle by separating duties among them. This enables us to construct the first practically efficient architecture to perform forensic image recognition in a privacy-preserving manner. By deriving unique cryptographic keys directly from the images, we can encrypt all sensitive data and ensure that only illegal images can be recovered by the law enforcement agency while all other information remains protected

Non Oblivious Watermarking Technique for JPEG2000 Compressed Images Using Arnold Scrambling of Unequal Size Watermark Blocks

In this paper, a watermarking technique for JPEG2000 compressed image is proposed. Scrambling of secret message is performed block-wise using Arnold Transform. Secret message is divided into non-overlapping blocks of unequal size and then Arnold transform is applied on each block and secret key is generated based on the periodicity of each block. Scrambled secret message is embedded into qualified significant wavelet coefficients of a cover image. After embedding the secret message into wavelet coefficients, the remaining processes of JPEG2000 standard are executed to compress the watermarked image at different compression rates. Scaling Factor (SF) is used to embed watermark into wavelet coefficients and the value of SF is stored into COM box of the code stream of JPEG2000 compressed image and this SF value and secret key are used to extract the embedded watermark on the receiver side. The performance of the proposed technique is robust to a variety of attacks like image cropping, salt and pepper noise, and rotation. Proposed technique is compared with the existing watermarking techniques for JPEG2000 compressed images to show its effectiveness