Feature selection for steganalysis using the Mahalanobis distance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7541, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Davidson, Jennifer L ^a   Jalan, Jaikishan ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ,; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CURSE OF DIMENSIONALITY; EMBEDDING ALGORITHMS; FEATURE SELECTION; FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHM; FEATURE SETS; FEATURE SPACE; HIGH DIMENSIONALITY; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCE MEASURE; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCES; STEGANALYSIS; TRAINING DATA; TRAINING SETS;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 77951850338     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.841074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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