VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

JNANA SANGAMA, BELGAUM- 590019

A PROJECT REPORT ON

“DATA HIDING TECHNIQUE FOR IMAGE STEGANOGRAPHY

USING HISTOGRAM RE-QUANTIZATION”

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
in
ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

For the academic year 2014

Submitted by
Preethi .S. Koundinya (1JS10EC068)
ShikhaVerma (1JS10EC094)
Shruthi Narayan (1JS10EC100)
Sudharani .S. Sawale (1JS10EC106)

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

JSS ACADEMY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
JSS Campus, Mylasandra, Uttarahalli-Kengeri Main Road, Bengaluru-60.
 J.S.S ACADEMY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
UTTARAHALLI KENGERI ROAD, BANGALORE - 560060

Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

CERTIFICATE

A PROJECT REPORT
on
“DATA HIDING TECHNIQUE FOR IMAGE STEGANOGRAPHY
USING
HISTOGRAM RE-QUANTIZATION”

This is to certify that the project entitled “Data Hiding Technique For Image
Steganography Using Histogram Re-Quantization” carried out by Preethi .S. Koundinya,
Shikha Verma, Shruthi Narayan, Sudharani .S. Sawale USN-1JS10EC068, 1JS10EC094,
1JS10EC100, 1JS10EC106 respectively, are bonafide students of JSS Academy of
Technical Education, Bangalore, in partial fulfillment for the award of Bachelor of
Engineering in Electronics & Communication Engineering of the Visvesvaraya
Technological University, Belgaum during the year 2013-2014. It is certified that all
corrections/suggestions indicated for Internal Assessment have been incorporated in the
report deposited in the departmental library. The project report has been approved as it
satisfies the academic requirements in project work prescribed for the said degree.

Mr. Satish Shet K. Mr. Veerabhadrappa S.T.

Project Guide Project Coordinator

Dr. B.G. Shivaleelavathi Dr. Mrityunjaya .V. Latte

Head of the Department Principal
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

No work is complete without due recognition being given to people who made
it possible. This project is no exception. We would like to place on record our
profound gratitude for those who have helped us complete this project.

We thank his holiness Jagadguru Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra

Mahaswamiji for his blessings to this venture.

We are grateful to Dr. Mrityunjaya V Latte, Principal and Dr.

B.G.Shivaleelavathi, HOD, Department of Electronics and Communication
Engineering, for their support and encouragement towards the presentation of
this project.

We would like to thank Mr. Veerabhadrappa S. T., Project Coordinator for

his able guidance. With his help and suggestion, the completion of this project
has been easier for us.

We would like to thank Mr. Satish Shet K., Project Guide whose modesty,
adaptability and cheerful disposition are laudable. He inculcated in us an
enduring interest to delve further into the topic.

We would also like to offer our heartfelt indebtedness to Mr. Arun Kumar
M.S., for his invaluable support that he extended to us during the progress of
this project.

We also express our deep sense of gratitude to all the teaching and non-
teaching staff of Electronics and Communication Engineering Department for
their valuable guidance.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to our family and friends who, in
their own ways helped us to finish this project.
 ABSTRACT

The aim of the project titled ‘Data hiding technique for image steganography using
histogram re-quantization’ is to utilize images to hide data. Steganography, a technique of
data hiding, is becoming more and more significant with expansion of the Internet
communication. As a result, various steganographic algorithms have been proposed in recent
years.

In order to reinforce more security and more data embedding capacity, this project extends
the Ni’s algorithm by enhancing the security using Caesar Cipher encryption algorithm and a
histogram re-quantization. To begin with, applying an encryption technique, the security is
not easy to be broken by a brute-force attack. In addition, the embedding capacity is able to
be enhanced by adopting a histogram re-quantization. As to our approach, it is visually
indistinguishable between a cover image and a stego image with a large embedding capacity.

The project explains the concept of a novel steganographic algorithm that is highly effective.
It is designed to have a large payload capacity and robust. The message is hidden in such a
way that it is invisible to the naked eye. The proposed algorithm is implemented on Matlab
and Verilog platforms. The Verilog emendation makes use of the ‘dictionary’ technique
which creates a look-up table as a text-file and the embedding algorithm accesses it for data.

Every technique has some advantages and disadvantages. But the histogram method is a very
good compromise between performances, robustness, capacity and quality of embedding.
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