A path optional lossless data hiding scheme based on VQ joint neighboring coding

Information Sciences

Volumn 179, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 3332-3348

  Wang, Jun Xiang ^a   Lu, Zhe Ming ^a,b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Information hiding; Joint neighboring coding; Lossless steganography; Reversible data hiding

Indexed keywords

COVER-IMAGE; COVERT COMMUNICATIONS; DATA HIDING; HIDING CAPACITY; INDEX TABLE; INFORMATION HIDING; JOINT NEIGHBORING CODING; LOSSLESS DATA HIDING; LOSSLESS STEGANOGRAPHY; PATH-BASED; RECOVERING PROCESS; REVERSIBLE DATA HIDING; SECRET DATA; SECURITY LEVEL; SIDE MATCH; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY;

VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

EID: 67650945018     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.05.021     Document Type: Article

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