Investigation on cost assignment in spatial image steganography

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1264-1277

  Li, Bin ^a,b   Tan, Shunquan ^a   Wang, Ming ^a   Huang, Jiwu ^a,c  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Advanced Mould Manufacturing Technology   (China)

^c Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Laser Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEGANOGRAPHY;

CONTENT-ADAPTIVE; COST ASSIGNMENTS; DISTORTION FUNCTIONS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; LINEAR RELATION; MODELING FEATURES; STEGANOGRAPHIC SCHEMES; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

COSTS;

EID: 84904685564     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2014.2326954     Document Type: Article

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