Near-optimal codes for information embedding in gray-scale signals

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1262-1270

  Zhang, Weiming ^a   Zhang, Xinpeng ^b   Wang, Shuozhong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Average distortion; Covering codes; Embedding efficiency; Embedding rate; Information embedding; LDGM codes; Steganography; Wet paper codes

Indexed keywords

COVERING CODES; EMBEDDING EFFICIENCY; EMBEDDING RATES; INFORMATION EMBEDDING; LDGM CODES; WET PAPER CODES;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CRYPTOGRAPHY; STEGANOGRAPHY;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 77949520885     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2009.2039087     Document Type: Article

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