Detection of audio covert channels using statistical footprints of hidden messages

Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 389-401

  Özer, Hamza ^a,c   Sankur, Bülent ^a   Memon, Nasir ^b   Avcibaş, Ismail ^d  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TURKEY   (Turkey)

^d ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Steganalysis; Support vector machine; Watermarking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH;

FEATURE SELECTION; STEGANOGRAPHIC ALGORITHMS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; WATERMARKING ALGORITHMS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 33745384504     PISSN: 10512004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsp.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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