Steganography Methods

Spatial vs transform domain

SPATIAL TRANSFORM
File Format BMP, PNG, GIF JPEG, JPEG2000
Capacity Measure BPP
Bits Per Pixel
BPNC
Bits Per Non-zero Coeffecient
Features More detectable,
Higher embedding capacity,
Not robust to modifications,
Better visual quality(PSNR),
Format dependent
Less detectable,
Less embedding capacity,
Robust to cropping, resizing etc,
Format Independent
Methods LSB, PVD, Edge based,
Matrix embedding
DWT, DCT, IWT, Jsteg, F5

Methods comparison

SPATIAL SSIM           PSNR          KNOWN STEGANALYSIS
LSB 0.9997 51.1471 SPA
LSBM 0.9997 51.1471 Centre of gravity of HCF
Matrix embedding 0.9993 45.1295 Image Histogram analysis
PVD (TPVD) 0.9875 33.5859 Targeted attack
(Histogram analysis)
Edge based 0.9993 42.9949 BSpline Fitting
TRANSFORM SSIM PSNR KNOWN STEGANALYSIS
DWT 0.9793 24.7483 Wavelet coefficient
correlation
DCT 0.9964 38.6726 Neighboring Joint
Density based
IWT 0.6479 29.8914 Co-Occurrences of Integer
Wavelet Coefficients
JSteg 0.9514 29.9866 Quantitative Structural Steganalysis

LSB, LSBM, and SPA

An overview

Source code used/referred: