Is image stenography natural?

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2040-2050

  Martín, Alvaro ^a   Sapiro, Guillermo ^b   Seroussi, Gadiel ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Image models; Information hiding; Natural images; Stenography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DATA HIDING PROCESS; IMAGE MODELS; IMAGE STEGANOGRAPHY; INFORMATION HIDING; NATURAL IMAGES;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SECURITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SECURITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 28944432343     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.859370     Document Type: Article

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