Research Article

A High-Capacity Image Steganography Method Using Chaotic Particle Swarm Optimization

Table 4

PSNR for Lena, Peppers, and Boat using Airplane and Baboon as secret images.

Secret imageCover imageLenaPeppersBoat
ResolutionCapacity (bits)PSNR (dB)PSNR (dB)PSNR (dB)

Airplane64 × 6432,76868.5164.9968.84
80 × 8051,20067.18463.1667.22
90 × 9064,80065.82363.266.13
96 × 9673,72862.5862.6665.63
116 × 116107,64860.0359.3063.90
128 × 128131,07259.4258.8063.00
160 × 160204,80056.1556.5861.02

Baboon64 × 6432,76869.0268.9469.20
80 × 8051,20067.3767.1267.38
90 × 9064,80066.2766.3066.24
96 × 9673,72865.6665.8265.69
116 × 116107,64864.0361.0264.08
128 × 128131,07260.1560.263.08
160 × 160204,80060.1058.3861.20