An image-hiding method with high hiding capacity based on best-block matching and k-means clustering

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 398-409

  Wang, Ran Zan ^a   Tsai, Yao De ^a  

^a MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data hiding; Image hiding; k Means clustering; Least significant bit; Steganography

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CODES; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING;

DATA HIDING; IMAGE HIDING; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; LEAST SIGNIFICANT BIT; STEGANOGRAPHY;

PATTERN MATCHING;

EID: 33750996440     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2006.07.015     Document Type: Article

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