Steganography using augmented reality

Abstract

This era is marked by a significant advancement of technology, particularly in areas related to secrecy, confidentiality, augmented reality and intelligent systems. In our work, we mixed these four technologies into the realm of augmented reality. We developed an application with two primary roles: Role 1 serves all users, allowing them to detect and display descriptions of various objects based on data fetched from a database. Role 2, intended users interested in covert communication, enables the hiding and revealing of secret information. We elaborated the application using Unity Game Engine for AR. For AI, YOLOv8 pretrained model was used to custom-train our model on a prototype list of 10 objects. For steganography and cryptography, we employed the LSB algorithm and the AES algorithm, respectively.