Modeling and Extending the Ensemble Classifier for Steganalysis of Digital Images Using Hypothesis Testing Theory

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2627-2642

  Cogranne, Rémi ^a   Fridrich, Jessica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

ensemble classifier; Hypothesis testing theory; information hiding; multi class classification; optimal detection

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFIERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STEGANOGRAPHY;

ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFORMATION HIDING; MULTI-CLASS CLASSIFICATION; OPTIMAL DETECTION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84943746941     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2015.2470220     Document Type: Article

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