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Image Steganography and Steganalysis: Concepts and Practice

  • Rajarathnam Chandramouli
  • Mehdi Kharrazi
  • Nasir Memon
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 2939)

Abstract

In the last few years, we have seen many new and powerful steganography and steganalysis techniques reported in the literature. In the following paper we go over some general concepts and ideas that apply to steganography and steganalysis. Specifically we establish a framework and define notion of security for a steganographic system. We show how conventional definitions do not really adequately cover image steganography and an provide alternate definition. We also review some of the more recent image steganography and steganalysis techniques.

Keywords

Cover Image Secret Message Information Hiding Stego Image Hide Message 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Rajarathnam Chandramouli
    • 1
  • Mehdi Kharrazi
    • 2
  • Nasir Memon
    • 3
  1. 1.Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringStevens Institute of TechnologyHobokenUSA
  2. 2.Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringPolytechnic UniversityBrooklynUSA
  3. 3.Department of Computer and Information SciencePolytechnic UniversityBrooklynUSA

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