Image Steganography Based on Swarm Intelligence Algorithms: A Survey

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  • Dilovan Asaad Zebari, Diyar Qader Zeebaree, Jwan Najeeb Saeed, Nechirvan Asaad Zebari, Adel AL-Zebari

Abstract

Information security and confidentiality are the prime concern of any type of communication. The techniques that utilizing inconspicuous digital media such as text, audio, video and image for hiding confidential data in it are collectively called Steganography. The key challenge of steganographic system design is to maintain a fair trade-off between, security, robustness, higher bit embedding rate and imperceptibility. Thus, with the massive progress in digital technology, to transmit secret messages through the internet effective steganography algorithms are required. However, the object which has been used to hide secret messages within may be exposed by compression or any type of noise which leads to extract secret message incorrectly. Therefore, utilizing the non-traditional basics for information security is required, such as swarm intelligence algorithms which are focused as a new aspect to achieve better security. In this paper, a survey of recent swarm intelligence algorithms based on steganography is covered. The objective function for swarm intelligence algorithms is realized in a way that the quality and robustness of the object that has been used for hiding messages are acceptable. With a particular emphasis on the main purpose and the objective of the proposed method based on the particular swarm intelligence algorithm has been reviewed. To present a more secure, efficient steganography algorithm based on swarm intelligence algorithms for future work, this will be helpful.

Keywords: Data security, Image Steganography, Swarm Intelligence Algorithms.

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2020-06-12

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