A novel data embedding method using adaptive pixel pair matching

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 7, Issue 1 PART 2, 2012, Pages 176-184

  Hong, Wien ^a   Chen, Tung Shou ^b  

^a YU DA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adaptive pixel pair matching (APPM); diamond encoding (DE); exploiting modification direction (EMD); least significant bit (LSB); optimal pixel adjustment process (OPAP); pixel pair matching (PPM)

Indexed keywords

DATA EMBEDDING METHODS; DATA-HIDING; EXPLOITING MODIFICATION DIRECTION (EMD); LEAST SIGNIFICANT BITS; NEIGHBORHOOD SET; OPTIMAL PIXEL ADJUSTMENT PROCESS (OPAP); PAIR MATCHING; REFERENCE COORDINATES; STEGANALYSIS;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); OPTIMIZATION; STEGANOGRAPHY;

PIXELS;

EID: 84862908544     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2011.2155062     Document Type: Article

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