A new adaptive steganographic algorithm based on image complexity in space domain was proposed. The algorithm takes full advantage of the image's feature that the image with high complexity contains more information and thus can load more secret message. In order to measure the complexity of image blocks in a better way
the algorithm divides the cover image into 3?3 pixel blocks
and then measures the complexity of blocks by computing information entropy and contrast. After that
the algorithm analyzes the statistics of all the blocks'complexity to get the threshold for evaluating the complexity of every block
and then chooses steganographic algorithms with different strength at the different complexity of blocks. The performance analysis and comparison experiments showed that in the same embedded rate
the proposed algorithm has higher
R
PSN
and stronger statistical security in the same embedded rate.
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