Lossless data hiding for color images based on block truncation coding

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2347-2357

  Chang, Chin Chen ^a,b   Lin, Chih Yang ^b   Fan, Yi Hsuan ^b  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Block truncation coding (BTC); Genetic algorithm (GA); Reversible data hiding; Steganography

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CODES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE PROCESSING;

BLOCK TRUNCATION CODING (BTC); REVERSIBLE DATA HIDING; STEGANOGRAPHY;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 41549096759     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2007.12.009     Document Type: Article

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