Table 6 Cover vs stego capacity 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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BPP_cfg

Attack

PSNR (S vs X)

Embed-t

Extra-t

BPP_used

Payload

Payload used

Recovered

1

None

\(\infty\)

13.483250

6.439786

0.139526

262144

36576

2

None

\(\infty\)

8.243059

6.175495

0.133667

262144

35040

3

None

\(\infty\)

0.259661

0.275765

0.139526

262144

36576

4

None

\(\infty\)

0.593038

0.606186

0.139526

262144

36576

5

None

0.159626

0.187999

0.139526

262144

36576

6

None

\(\infty\)

5.846836

5.549757

0.045776

262144

12000

7

Jpeg

8.570792

6.419071

0.139526

262144

36576

8

0.1

None

\(\infty\)

8.146326

5.866124

0.097046

26214

25440

9

0.2

None

\(\infty\)

9.069988

6.852381

0.195465

52428

51240

10

0.4

None

\(\infty\)

10.645520

11.302322

0.397339

104857

104160

  1. PSNR S vs X: Secret vs Extracted secret, Embed-t (s), Extra-t(s), Payload (bits), Payload used (bits)
  2. Rows (1–10) mirror the configurations in Table 5, enabling one-to-one comparison.