Steganography is the art of hiding the fact that communication is taking place, by hiding information in other information. Many different carrier file formats can be used, but digital images are the most popular because of their frequency on the Internet. For hiding secret information in images, there exists a large variety of steganographic techniques some are more complex than others and all of them have respective strong and weak points. Different applications have different requirements of the steganography technique used. For example, some applications may require absolute invisibility of the secret information, while others require a larger secret message to be hidden. This paper intends to give an overview of image steganography, its uses and techniques. We proposed both image to image and audio to image steganography using Least Significant Bit Technique, here data image is encoded to real time color image and audio signal is encoded with color image respectively. This proposed work is simulated using Matlab R2013a.Image Steganography Hiding Image and Audio Using Robust LSB Algorithm
1.Steganography a singular method of information hiding techniques. It embeds messages into a host medium in order to conceal secret messages so as not to arouse suspicion by an eavesdropper.
2.A typical steganographic application includes covert communications between two parties whose existence is unknown to a possible attacker and whose success depends on detecting the existence of this communication.
3.In general, the host medium used in steganography includes meaningful digital media such as digital image, text, audio, video, 3D model etc.
4.A large number of image steganographic algorithms have been investigated with the increasing popularity and use of digital images.
5.Our approach offers three advantages. First, since the image synthesis can synthesize an arbitrary size of images, the embedding capacity which our scheme offers is proportional to the size of the stego image.