Novel steganographic method based on jig swap puzzle images

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Farn, En Jung ^a   Chen, Chaur Chin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGES; DATA HIDING; FORMAT CONVERSION; LOSSY IMAGE COMPRESSION; NEW POSITION; ORIGINAL IMAGES; SECRET DATA;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 77955987841     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3073979     Document Type: Article

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