Quantitative structural steganalysis of Jsteg

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 681-693

  Kodovsky, Jan ^a   Fridrich, Jessica ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

JPEG steganography; Jsteg; least significant bit (LSB) embedding; maximum likelihood; precover assumption; zero message hypothesis

Indexed keywords

JPEG STEGANOGRAPHY; JSTEG; LEAST-SIGNIFICANT BIT (LSB) EMBEDDING; PRECOVER ASSUMPTION; ZERO MESSAGE HYPOTHESIS;

COSINE TRANSFORMS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE CODING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

STEGANOGRAPHY;

EID: 78649425529     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2010.2056684     Document Type: Article

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