Gibbs construction in steganography

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 705-720

  Filler, Tomáš ^a   Fridrich, Jessica ^a  

^a State University of New York at Binghamton   (United States)

Author keywords

Embedding impact; Gibbs sampling; Markov random field; steganography

Indexed keywords

DETECTABILITY; DISTORTION FUNCTIONS; EMBEDDING DISTORTION; EMBEDDING IMPACT; GIBBS SAMPLERS; GIBBS SAMPLING; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; OPTIMAL EMBEDDING; PRACTICAL ALGORITHMS; RATE-DISTORTION BOUNDS; SECURE STEGANOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL PHYSICS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THERMODYNAMIC INTEGRATION;

OPTIMIZATION; SAMPLING;

STEGANOGRAPHY;

EID: 78149255931     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2010.2077629     Document Type: Article

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