A bit of PIL for bit plane display

Displaying image bit planes, in particular less significant ones, is an important task to reveal some image artefacts due to image degradation or manipulation. In particular, the Least Significant Bit (LSB) of pixel values is heavily used in steganography to hide messages in a cover image. We will see in this blog how to use the Python Imaging Library (PIL) to save and display an image containing some specified bit planes of a given image.

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