Hiding Secret Data into an AMBTC-Compressed Image Using Genetic Algorithm

In this paper, we present an image-hiding scheme based on genetic algorithm. The secret messages are embedded into a compressed image of AMBTC. Genetic algorithm is developed to find the best substitution of AMBTC bitmap. The proposed scheme provides high visual quality of the stego-image. The enhanced system of the proposed scheme increases embedding capacity while retaining good quality of the stego-image. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme outperform the comparative schemes.