Adaptive steganalysis of least significant bit replacement in grayscale natural images

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 556-569

  Fillatre, Lionel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive detection; information hiding; natural image; nuisance parameters; statistical hypotheses testing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE DETECTION; INFORMATION HIDING; NATURAL IMAGES; NUISANCE PARAMETER; STATISTICAL HYPOTHESES TESTING;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; LINEAR REGRESSION; NUMERICAL METHODS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STEGANOGRAPHY;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84855933278     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2174231     Document Type: Article

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