A hierarchical protocol for increasing the stealthiness of steganographic methods

Proceedings of the Multimedia and Security Workshop 2004, MM and Sec'04

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 16-24

  Topkara, Mercan ^a   Topkara, Umut ^a   Atallah, Mikhail J ^a   Taskiran, Cuneyt ^a   Lin, Eugene ^a   Delp, Edward J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital watermarking; Quad tree structure; Statistical attacks; Steganalysis; Steganography; Upper bound on detectability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

QUAD-TREE STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ATTACKS; STEGANALYSIS; STEGANOGRAPHY; UPPER BOUND ON DETECTABILITY;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 14844321260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1022431.1022436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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