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Spread spectrum image steganography

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A new method of digital Steganography, entitled spread spectrum image steganography (SSIS), which hides and recovers a message of substantial length within digital imagery while maintaining the original image size and dynamic range.
Abstract
We present a new method of digital steganography, entitled spread spectrum image steganography (SSIS). Steganography, which means "covered writing" in Greek, is the science of communicating in a hidden manner. Following a discussion of steganographic communication theory and review of existing techniques, the new method, SSIS, is introduced. This system hides and recovers a message of substantial length within digital imagery while maintaining the original image size and dynamic range. The hidden message can be recovered using appropriate keys without any knowledge of the original image. Image restoration, error-control coding, and techniques similar to spread spectrum are described, and the performance of the system is illustrated. A message embedded by this method can be in the form of text, imagery, or any other digital signal. Applications for such a data-hiding scheme include in-band captioning, covert communication, image tamperproofing, authentication, embedded control, and revision tracking.

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SINR, bit error rate, and Shannon capacity optimized spread-spectrum steganography

TL;DR: For any given host image and (block) transform domain of interest, the signature vector is derived that when used for spread-spectrum message embedding that maximizes the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at the output of the maximum SINR linear filter receiver.
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Digital video steganalysis exploiting collusion sensitivity

TL;DR: An effective steganalyis technique for digital video sequences based on the collusion attack by using redundant information present in the temporal domain to detect covert messages in the form of Gaussian watermarks for cybersecurity and cyberforensics.
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JPEG compression immune steganography using wavelet transform

TL;DR: A new method of image steganography that is extremely robust against JPEG compression while allowing error free information extracting is presented, based on 2D lossless wavelet transform and convolution error correction coding.
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Authenticatable image with an embedded image having a discernible physical characteristic with improved security feature

TL;DR: In this article, a method for printing an authenticatable image having an embedded image into a receiver having a discernible physical characteristic, such that the printed image can be used to authenticate the receiver, is described.
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Secure Error-Free Steganography for JPEG Images

TL;DR: This paper proposes a variation of the Quantization Index Modulation (QIM) for solving the prisoners' problem, and proposes a theorem to show that the error of mean intensity value of an image block caused by JPEG compression is bounded.
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