Extract and embed data bits into image using matlab

I got a question want to raise up here. My problem is I want to embed the 2 LSB from each of the character into 2 * 2 matrix and continuous embed until the data is successfully being embed all. But now I cant make it. Your help is really appreciated. Here is my part of the code.

fid = fopen('test.txt'); %open the text file
readText = fread(fid);
fclose(fid); %close the file function
char_in_bit = uint8(readText);
ascii_binary = dec2bin(char_in_bit,7);
size_char = size(char_in_bit); %determine the length of the text file
display(char_in_bit);
display(size_char);

display(BlockRONI);
display(ascii_binary);

for a=1 : size(ascii_binary,1)
    for b=1:6
        if blocksize==2
        n=1;
        for r=1:2
            for c=1:2
                block(r,c)=bitset(block(r,c),1,char_in_bit(n));
                n=n+1;
                block(r,c)=bitset(block(r,c),2,char_in_bit(n));
                %display(block(r,c));
            end
        end
        end
    end
    block(r,c) = bitset(block(r,c), 7, char_in_bit(n));
end

watermarked_image(y2:y2+blocksize-1, x2:x2+blocksize-1)=block;
watermarked_image_int=uint8(watermarked_image);
imwrite(watermarked_image_int,'watermarked.jpg');

The below data is my input from test.txt file 1010111 1101001 1101100 1101100 1101001 1100001 1101101 and my image that i want embed is gray-scale 8 bit image.

Kindly give me suggestion and appreciate your help

[Image Analyst]

What's the problem? Can't you use the debugger to find out what values are getting set and determine if they are the values that you want?

[Willam Willam]

From the input, I want get each input into array something like this. A=[1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1].

[Walter Roberson]

And what are you getting instead of your expected result?

[Willam Willam]

i want compare the input that i embed is same as the extracted data. But now i manage to embed the data in block size of 2x2. But the extracted data is not compatible to my input. Can sir give me some guides? Thanks

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Why is this line:

block(r,c) = bitset(block(r,c), 7, char_in_bit(n));

outside of your loops over r and c, and even outside of your b loop? Do you know what r and c are then? They're 2, so you're always setting block(2,2).

And what ia A and why should it be all 1's? In your code, what variable take on this/these value(s): "010111 1101001 1101100 1101100 1101001 1100001 1101101 "? Is that char_in_bit? Is it the whole string or just 8 0 and 1 at a time? And what about that sequence of binary numbers means that A should be all 1's?

But my main question is: are you using the debugger to help yourself? Are you stepping through code and examining variables as you go?

[Willam Willam]

clear all;

global x
global y
global blocksize
global block
global numblock_RONI
global N_RONI
global M_RONI
global startx
global starty
global x2_RONI
global y2_RONI

y2 = 51;
x2 = 31;

cover_object = imread('moon_surface.jpe'); %read the image file
cover_object = double(cover_object);
cover_object = uint8(cover_object);
watermarked_image = cover_object;
%block size
blocksize = 2;
%size of block
N_RONI=50; 
M_RONI=50;
%starting point of the pixel
%startx=30;
%starty=50;
%calculate number of block in the RONI
Br_RONI=floor(N_RONI/blocksize); % Blocks per row
Bc_RONI= floor(M_RONI/blocksize); % Blocks per column
numblock_RONI= Br_RONI*Bc_RONI; % number of blocks
display(numblock_RONI);
%display number of block of RONI
BlockRONI=numblock_RONI;

block=cover_object(y2:y2+blocksize-1,x2:x2+blocksize-1);
display(block);
imshow(block);

fid = fopen('test.txt'); %open the text file
readText = fread(fid);
fclose(fid); %close the file function
char_in_bit = double(readText);
display(char_in_bit);
ascii_binary = dec2bin(char_in_bit, 8);
ascii_binary = ascii_binary +0;
size_char = length(char_in_bit); %determine the length of the text file
length = length(ascii_binary);

display(BlockRONI);
%display(class(ascii_binary));

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%                                                                         %
%                           Embedding part                                %
%                                                                         %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
embed = [];%convert ascii_binary into array form
embed2 = [];
 for a1 = 1
        embed2 = bitget(ascii_binary, a1);
        embed = [embed embed2];
        %embed = reshape(embed, [], 8);
        %c = mat2cell(b, [], [1 8]);
        display(embed);
 end

for a=1 : embed
     %for b=1:1
        n=1;
        for r=1:2
            for c=1:2
                block(r,c)=bitset(block(r,c),1,embed(n));
                n=n+1;
                block(r,c)=bitset(block(r,c),2,embed(n));
                n=n+1;
            end
        end
end

watermarked_image(y2:y2+blocksize-1, x2:x2+blocksize-1)=block;
% if (x2_RONI+blocksize) > (N_RONI+startx-1)
%             if y2_RONI+blocksize < (M_RONI+starty)
%       x2_RONI=startx;
%       y2_RONI=y2_RONI+blocksize;
%             end
%         else
%             x2_RONI=x2_RONI+blocksize;
%    
% end
watermarked_image_int=uint8(watermarked_image);
imwrite(watermarked_image_int,'watermarked.jpg');
display('Done of Embeddding');

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%                                                                         % 
%                        Extract Algorithms                               %
%                                                                         %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

cover_object = imread('watermarked.jpg'); %read the image file
cover_object = double(cover_object);
watermarked_image = cover_object;

block=cover_object(y2:y2+blocksize-1,x2:x2+blocksize-1);

retrieveblock = [];

for r=1:2
    for c=1:2             
        retrievebits=bitget(block(r,c),1);                        
        retrieveblock=[retrieveblock retrievebits];          
        retrievebits=bitget(block(r,c),2);            
        retrieveblock=[retrieveblock retrievebits];                    
    end
end  
display(retrieveblock);

this is the current stage that i do now. But i just curious why my input and my output is totally different? Can sir give me some guides?