Inverted pattern approach to improve image quality of information hiding by LSB substitution

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2674-2683

  Yang, Cheng Hsing ^a  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Image processing; Information hiding; LSB substitution; Security

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; PIXELS; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; SECURITY OF DATA;

INFORMATION HIDING; LEAST-SIGNIFICANT-BIT (LSB) SUBSTITUTION;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 42749096863     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.01.019     Document Type: Article

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