Digital image steganography: Survey and analysis of current methods

Signal Processing

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 727-752

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive steganography; Digital image steganography; Frequency domain; Security; Spatial domain

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STEGANOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGE STEGANOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN; SECURITY; SPATIAL DOMAIN;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350710022     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.08.010     Document Type: Review

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