Content-adaptive steganography by minimizing statistical detectability

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 221-234

  Sedighi, Vahid ^a   Cogranne, Rémi ^b   Fridrich, Jessica ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b Troys University of Technology   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive steganography and steganalysis; Hypothesis testing theory; Information hiding; Multivariate Gaussian; Optimal detection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

GAUSSIANS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFORMATION HIDING; OPTIMAL DETECTION; STEGANALYSIS;

STEGANOGRAPHY;

EID: 85015091451     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2015.2486744     Document Type: Article

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