A review on blind detection for image steganography

Signal Processing

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2138-2157

  Luo, Xiang Yang ^a,b   Wang, Dao Shun ^b   Wang, Ping ^a   Liu, Fen Lin ^a  

^a ZHENGZHOU INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blind detection; Digital image; Review; Steganalysis; Steganography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

BHATTACHARYYA DISTANCE; DIGITAL IMAGE; STEGANALYSIS; STEGANOGRAPHY;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 44649098085     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2008.03.016     Document Type: Review

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