Data Privatization and Security using Bit Plane Complexity Segmentation

Advances in digital communication play an important role in our daily lives in today’s world. In general, information security systems fall into two categories: encryption and information hiding. The storage and transmission of sensitive personal data have become a part of everyday life for professional and personal well-being. Therefore, the issue of secure storage and transmission of confidential information is interest to many researchers. Steganography is a collective method to hide sensitive data in unobtrusive digital media such as video, audio, and images. One of the biggest challenges in developing steganography systems is finding the right balance between metrices like reliability, security, and data privacy. This project provides information about how the Bit Plane Complexity Steganography (BPCS) technology is applied to both grayscale and color imaging techniques and assesses performance parameters such as data concealment, security and stability based on the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and Mean Square Error (MSE) with various test cases to explain how it works for different files and images.