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This paper presents two steganographic methods for JPEG2000 still images which preserve histograms of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) coefficients. The first one is a histogram quasi- preserving method using quantization index modulation (QIM) with a dead zone in DWT domain. The second one is a histogram preserving method based on histogram matching using two quantizers with a dead zone. Comparing with a conventional JPEG2000 steganography, the two methods show better histogram preservation. The proposed methods are promising candidates for secure JPEG2000 steganography against histogram-based attack.
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Noda, H., Tsukamizu, Y., Niimi, M. (2006). JPEG2000 Steganography Possibly Secure Against Histogram-Based Attack. In: Zhuang, Y., Yang, SQ., Rui, Y., He, Q. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2006. PCM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4261. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11922162_10
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