A new approach to reliable detection of LSB steganography in natural images

Signal Processing

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2085-2093

  Zhang, Tao ^a   Ping, Xijian ^a  

^a INFORMATION ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Difference image histogram; Information hiding; LSB; Steganalysis; Steganography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER CRIME; CORRELATION METHODS; SECURITY OF DATA; STATISTICAL METHODS;

STEGANOGRAPHY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0041821327     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1684(03)00169-5     Document Type: Article

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