A generalization of Benford's law and its application to images

2007 European Control Conference, ECC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3613-3619

  Perez Gonzalez, Fernando ^a   Heileman, Gregory L ^b   Abdallah, Chaouki T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Benford's law; DCT; Forensics; Fourier series; Watermarking

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL WATERMARKING; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; FOURIER SERIES; IMAGE CODING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

BENFORD'S LAW; DISCRETE COSINES; FORENSICS; FOURIER EXPANSION; HIDDEN MESSAGES; ITS APPLICATIONS; LOGARITHMIC DOMAIN; SIGNIFICANT DIGITS;

DIGITAL FORENSICS;

EID: 84927739723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.23919/ecc.2007.7068574     Document Type: Conference Paper

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