An iterative method of palette-based image steganography

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 301-309

  Wu, Mei Yi ^a   Ho, Yu Kun ^a   Lee, Jia Hong ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data hiding; Palette based image; Security; Steganography; Stego image

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

CARRIER IMAGES; IMAGE STEGANOGRAPHY;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0347355321     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2003.10.013     Document Type: Article

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