Steganography Based on Grayscale Images Using (5,3) Hamming Code

Steganography is a technique to hide secret data in cover images securely. This technique is used for secret communication. However, steganography is not as strong as watermark against various attacks. "Hamming+1" scheme is a well known scheme in the steganography. In this paper, we propose new data hiding scheme that showed better performance compared to "Hamming+1". The proposed scheme conceals 3 bits per 5 pixels of an image. The experimental result showed that the proposed scheme achieves an 0.599 bpp embedding payload and a higher visual quality of stego images compared to the previous schemes.