A logarithmic quantization index modulation for perceptually better data hiding

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1504-1517

  Kalantari, Nima Khademi ^a   Ahadi, Seyed Mohammad ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Digital watermarking; Generalized Gaussian distribution; Logarithmic quantization; Quantization Index Modulation (QIM)

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SIGNALS; COMPRESSION FUNCTIONS; DATA HIDING; DITHER MODULATION; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS; HOST SIGNALS; HYPER-SPHERES; INVERSE FUNCTIONS; LOGARITHMIC DOMAIN; LOGARITHMIC QUANTIZATION; OPTIMUM PARAMETERS; QUANTIZATION ALGORITHMS; QUANTIZATION INDEX MODULATION; QUANTIZATION-BASED METHODS; QUANTIZERS; REAL IMAGES; SECRET KEY;

DATA COMPRESSION; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MODULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VECTORS; WATERMARKING;

VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PACKAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PRODUCT LABELING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SECURITY MEASURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77952654249     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2042646     Document Type: Article

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