High-performance JPEG steganography using complementary embedding strategy

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2945-2955

  Liu, Chiang Lung ^a   Liao, Shiang Rong ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chi square family attack; Complementary embedding; Image hiding; JPEG steganography; S family attack; Statistical steganalysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; SECURITY OF DATA; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CHI-SQUARE FAMILY ATTACK; COMPLEMENTARY EMBEDDING; IMAGE HIDING; JPEG STEGANOGRAPHY; S FAMILY ATTACK;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 44649167523     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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