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J. Software Engineering Applications, 2009, 2:20-24 Published Online April 2009 in SciRes (www.SciRP.org/journal/jsea) Data Hiding Method with Quality Control for Binary Images 1 2 Ki-Hyun Jung , Kee-Young Yoo 1School of Computer Information, Yeungjin College, 218 Bokhyun-Dong, Buk-Gu, Daegu 702-721, Republic of Korea, 2Department of Computer Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 1370 Sankyuk-Dong, Buk-Gu, Daegu 702-701, Republic of Korea. Email: kingjung@, yook@knu.ac.kr th st th Received December 16 , 2008; revised January 21 , 2009; accepted February 24 , 2009. ABSTRACT Secret data hiding in binary images is more difficult than other formats since binary images require only one bit repre- sentation to indicate black and white. This study proposes a new method for data hiding in binary images using opti- mized bit position to replace a secret bit. This method manipulates blocks, which are sub-divided. The parity bit for a specified block decides whether to change or not, to embed a secret bit. By finding the best position to insert a secret bit for each divided block, the image quality of the re sulting stego-image can be improved, while maintaining low compu- tational complexity. The experimental results show that the proposed method has an improvement with respect to a pre- vious work. Keywords: Data Hiding , Quality Control, Binary Images 1. Introduction Data hiding involves concealing information in a host Lie et al. partitioned the binary image into blocks of 2x2 signal, such as text, image, audio, or video. Binary im- pixels and embedded a bit 0 or 1 in the block. This ages are two-color images, with a 0 or 1 value for each method can hide one bit per block by mod