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> Team Member 1 (Majd Hafiri) ,Team Member 2 (Vipin Koshy Thomas)
We want to create an IP which can curb Intelluctual property theft using Stegnography alogorithms(LSB - bit manipulation). By this, each image will be having a secret Identifier embedded in it which is not visible to human eyes, which can be used to check the ownership.
Since Intelluctual property theft is becoming a common act in current world scenario, companies or authorities can use this ip to embbed secret identifiers in their media productions. So that they can easily identify plagarized images by checking the byte data. Doing small changes to the values for some pixels of the image won't be possible for human eyes to see those modified pixels but It is possible to do it on a software and hardware. These modified pixels represent a message somehow.
First of all, After passing the image to the FPGA , the FPGA will change some pixel values at some positions(will be specified by the user or randomly). The values of the chosen pixels (Least significant bit ) will be changed by some kind of mathematical operation. Then the modified image will be pushed back to the software in order to be sent or saved. Another overlay should be created which represents the the receiving part which verifies the ownership. This is done by passing the copy righted image to the FPGA as streams of pixels and calculate the number of modified pixels.
once decided on the pixel positions for embedding information we can use the following bit manipulation technique:
image credits: [wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_numbering#mediaviewer/File:Least_significant_bit.svg) , [technicalfoundation](https://technical-foundation.blogspot.com/2017/11/steganography-hide-data-in-images-with.html)
1. Setting the pixel area for embedding the secret identifier through register map.
2. Sending the images bytes as stream
3. udpating or manipulating the pixels using LSB manipulation alogorithms
Brainstorming : 10hrs
Alogorithm : 12 hrs
Overlay Synthesis : 6 hrs
Optimization : 6 hrs
Python : 8 hrs
Documention : 5hrs