A skin tone detection algorithm for an adaptive approach to steganography

Signal Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2465-2478

  Cheddad, Abbas ^a   Condell, Joan ^a   Curran, Kevin ^a   Mc Kevitt, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour transform; Luminance; Object oriented embedding; Skin tone detection; Steganography

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE APPROACH; COLOUR SPACES; COLOUR TRANSFORM; D-SPACE; EMBEDDING PROCESS; ERROR SIGNAL; EXISTING METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; GRAY SCALE; HOST IMAGES; IMAGE STEGANOGRAPHY; OBJECT-ORIENTED EMBEDDING; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; SKIN COLOUR; SKIN MODEL; SKIN TONE DETECTION; STEGANOGRAPHY;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRICS; COLOR; CRYPTOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

SKIN;

EID: 67651108785     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.04.022     Document Type: Article

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