Distribution of multimedia data using steganographic methods

Development of a multimedia website for direct multimedia data distribution between the creators (photographers or music bands or movie producers) and the end users (images for websites or companies or magazines or music for daily web-surfers or any company or advertisement). The multimedia data gets stamped with some recognizable feature using steganography and thus offers great potential for securing of data copyright and detection of infringers. This project report intends to give an overview of multimedia steganography, its uses and techniques. It also attempts to identify the requirements of a good steganography algorithm and briefly reflects on which steganographic techniques are more suitable for which applications. `Palette-based image steganography using colour quantisation', `Bit manipulation' are the various steganographic approaches for the multimedia data.