Computer Engineering Case Study - Image Steganography

A watermark adds information to a document or image by placing a logo or seal in plain sight. The watermark protects the owner’s rights by showing ownership. TV broadcasters commonly do this by placing their logo in a corner of the broadcast picture. A watermark can be hidden in an image. Hiding the watermark does not change the appearance of the image. This protects the owner’s rights, without disturbing the image. Steganography is a technique of hiding the data (file, text, image, etc.) within another data file (file, text, image, etc.). In this assignment you are required to implement a solution for digital image steganography. You are required to develop a software solution to encode a secret text message inside a Bitmap image and decode the secret message by extracting the embedded message from the encoded image. More information about steganography can be found in the following Wikipedia article ([login to view URL]).