Lightweight steganalysis based on image reconstruction and lead digit distribution analysis

International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 29-41

  Zaharis, Alexandros ^a   Martini, Adamantini ^b   Tryfonas, Theo ^c   Ilioudis, Christos ^d   Pangalos, G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d ATEI of Thessaloniki ^*  (Greece)

^e ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Benford's; Data hiding; JPEG; Staganalysis; Steganography

Indexed keywords

BASIC PRINCIPLES; BENFORD'S; BENFORD'S LAW; DATA HIDING; DATA RATES; DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS; ENCODING ALGORITHMS; IMAGE FILES; JPEG; JPEG IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; STAGANALYSIS; STEGANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

STEGANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84860507210     PISSN: 19416210     EISSN: 19416229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jdcf.2011100103     Document Type: Article

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