The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article [1], which was published as part of special issue “Data Security in Multimedia Modeling”, because the article shows substantial text overlap most notably with the articles cited [2, 3, 4]. In addition, there is evidence of figure duplication without appropriate permission, as well as evidence suggesting authorship manipulation and an attempt to subvert the peer review process.

The authors have not responded to correspondence about this retraction.

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