Increasing Message Capacity in Images Using Advanced Least Significant Bit and Image Scaling

Abstract

Purpose: Steganography is the science of writing hidden or hiding messages so that apart from the sender and the recipient, no one can know or realize that a message is hidden. This paper aims to analyze the method of advanced LSB to increase message capacity. Methods/Study design/approach: The steganography technique advanced LSB algorithm develops pre-existing steganographic algorithms such as LSB by utilizing a range of media pixel values cover (images that are used as media to hide messages) with different insertion rules from LSB. Image scaling in digital image processing is known as resampling. Resampling is a mathematical technique used to produce a new image from the previous image with different pixel size, often called interpolation. Increasing the pixel size of the previous image is called upsampling and in this study we will only use twice the image magnification. Result/Findings: The results of each test method using advanced LSB without image scaling and advanced LSB using image scaling were compared to obtain detailed comparison results of each method. Novelty/Originality/Value: Advanced LSB and image scaling in this study can increase the message capacity three times compared to only using the advanced LSB method without image scaling. It depends on the image pixels used.