Table 5 Cover vs stego quality using secret image size 512 × 512.

From: Content-adaptive LSB steganography with saliency fusion, ACO dispersion, and hybrid encryption with ablation study

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Index mode

ECC

Size

BPP_cfg

Attack

PSNR (C vs S)

SSIM (C vs S)

IF (C vs S)

MSE (C vs S)

1

ACO

True

(64, 64)

None

59.686

0.999520

0.999990

0.069901

2

ACO

False

(64, 64)

None

59.920

0.999549

0.999991

0.066227

3

random

True

(64, 64)

None

59.683

0.999120

0.999990

0.069954

4

perm

True

(64, 64)

None

59.707

0.999062

0.999990

0.069557

5

saliency_topk

True

(64, 64)

None

60.157

0.999552

0.999991

0.062717

6

ACO

True

(32, 32)

None

64.567

0.999928

0.999997

0.022720

7

ACO

True

(64, 64)

Jpeg

59.697

0.999513

0.999990

0.069721

8

ACO

True

0.1

None

61.262

0.999804

0.999993

0.048630

9

ACO

True

0.2

None

58.222

0.999138

0.999986

0.097919

10

ACO

True

0.4

None

55.166

0.997822

0.999972

0.197926

  1. C vs S: Cover vs Stego