Animation Steganography using Binary Images

Abstract

Steganography is the science of secret message delivery using cover media. The cover carriers can be image, video, animation, sound or text data. A digital image is a flexible medium used to carry a secret message because the slight modification of a cover image is hard to distinguish by human eye. Secret data hiding in binary images is more difficult than other formats since binary images require only one bit representation to indicate black and white. However, this model proposes technique to hide secret message using animations as cover-object. In the proposed model, animation sample frames are converted to binary images. Then, these binary images are used as a cover for hiding secret data depending on boundary bits manipulation technique. The performance of the proposed model has been successfully tested by computer simulation and the results are presented both quantitavely and qualitatively.