Identifying and resolving hidden text salting

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 837-847

  Moens, Marie Francine ^a   De Beer, Jan ^b   Boiy, Erik ^a   Gomez, Juan Carlos ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b IBM   (Belgium)

^c SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Content filtering; content manipulation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC FILTERS; CONTENT FILTERING; CONTENT MANIPULATION; DIGITAL MEDIA; DIGITAL TEXT; END USERS; FONT SIZE; HIDDEN TEXT; HUMAN READERS; OPEN PROBLEMS; PLAINTEXT; RENDERING PROCESS; SALTING-IN; SOURCE TEXT; SPAM FILTERING;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

FILTRATION;

EID: 78649435852     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2010.2063024     Document Type: Article

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