A new steganographic method for color and grayscale image hiding

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 183-194

  Yu, Yuan Hui ^a   Chang, Chin Chen ^b   Lin, Iuon Chang ^c  

^a SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Annotation; Color image hiding; Color quantization; Steganography; Stego image

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ANNOTATION; COLOR QUANTIZATION; CONVENTIONAL CRYPTO SYSTEMS; IMAGE HIDING; STEGANOGRAPHIC METHODS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 34547445526     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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