An Efficient Data-Hiding Scheme Based on Multidimensional Mini-SuDoKu

Sensors

Ji-Hwei Horng¹  Ching-Chun Chang²  Shuying Xu³  Chin-Chen Chang³ 

[1] Department of Electronic Engineering, National Quemoy University, Kinmen 89250, Taiwan;Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung 40724, Taiwan;

关键词: data hiding;    multidimensional;    embedding efficiency;    mini-SuDoKu;    security;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s20092739

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The massive Internet of Things (IoT) connecting various types of intelligent sensors for goods tracking in logistics, environmental monitoring and smart grid management is a crucial future ICT. High-end security and low power consumption are major requirements in scaling up the IoT. In this research, we propose an efficient data-hiding scheme to deal with the security problems and power saving issues of multimedia communication among IoT devises. Data hiding is the practice of hiding secret data into cover images in order to conceal and prevent secret data from being intercepted by malicious attackers. One of the established research streams of data-hiding methods is based on reference matrices (RM). In this study, we propose an efficient data-hiding scheme based on multidimensional mini-SuDoKu RM. The proposed RM possesses high complexity and can effectively improve the security of data hiding. In addition, this study also defines a range locator function which can significantly improve the embedding efficiency of multidimensional RM. Experimental results show that our data-hiding scheme can not only obtain better image quality, but also achieve higher embedding capacity than other related schemes.

【 授权许可】

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