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    Effect of Secret Image Transformation on the Steganography Process
    (Ieee, 2017) Buker, Mohamed; Tora, Hakan; Gokcay, Erhan
    Steganography is the art of hiding information in something else. It is favorable over encryption because encryption only hides the meaning of the information; whereas steganography hides the existence of the information. The existence of a hidden image decreases Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and increases Mean Square Error (MSE) values of the stego image. We propose an approach to improve PSNR and MSE values in stego images. In this method a transformation is applied to the secret image, concealed within another image, before embedding into the cover image. The effect of the transformation is tested with Least Significant Bit (LSB) insertion and Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) techniques. MSE and PSNR are calculated for both techniques with and without transformation. Results show a better MSE and PSNR values when a transformation is applied for LSB technique but no significant difference was shown in DCT technique.
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    A Generalized Arnold's Cat Map Transformation for Image Scrambling
    (Springer, 2022) Tora, Hakan; Gokcay, Erhan; Turan, Mehmet; Buker, Mohamed
    This study presents a new approach to generate the transformation matrix for Arnold's Cat Map (ACM). Matrices of standard and modified ACM are well known by many users. Since the structure of the possible matrices is known, one can easily select one of them and use it to recover the image with several trials. However, the proposed method generates a larger set of transform matrices. Thus, one will have difficulty in estimating the transform matrix used for scrambling. There is no fixed structure for our matrix as in standard or modified ACM, making it much harder for the transform matrix to be discovered. It is possible to use different type, order and number of operations to generate the transform matrix. The quality of the shuffling process and the strength against brute-force attacks of the proposed method is tested on several benchmark images.