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The following files are used to test performance:

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File_name      File_size      Percentage_to_image
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  1.data       36,787                    3%
  2.data       61,830                    4%
  3.data       76,347                    5%
  4.data       138,822                    10%
  5.data       272,106                    19%
  6.data       329,330                    23%
  7.data       512,174                    36%
  8.data       600,054                    42%
  9.data       608,070                    42%
  10.data      753,534                    52%
  11.data      848,590                    59%
  12.data      1,132,338            79%
  13.data      1,139,291            79%
  14.data      1,146,243            80%
  15.data      1,404,445            98%
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Conclusions:
  1) When file size is just more than 50% of image size, the quality of encrypted image
        is still satisfying. And it is still difficult to find the difference between
        new image and reference image ( base image).
  2) When file size is more than 70%, you still can find the outline of the original
        image, but you can find the image quality is becoming worse and worse.
  3) When the size of file to be encoded in image is more than 95% of original image,
        you can see some of the outline of image, but in some area, the original pixels
        are totally overlapped.
  4) considering other technologies such as data compress, data encryption, and image
        preprocessing such as image smoothing, we should be able to get better results.

Ba-jian, 2009, 1, 9

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