Using Genetic and Hill Climbing Algorithms to Improve Performance of Image Steganography

In this paper, a new method based on genetic and hill Climbing algorithms for steganography in image is proposed. Data is embedded in LSB. In order to enhance image quality and storage capacity, genetic algorithm is utilized which model hiding as a search and optimization process. Also, to speed up the search function with genetic algorithm, local search and hill Climbing algorithms have been used. The findings show that the hiding image quality is acceptable while capacity is increased. Also, hill Climbing Algorithm speed up the hiding process.