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Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for Security Applications pp 275–303Cite as

Image Steganalysis

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Introduction

No matter how unbreakable an encryption algorithm is, the encrypted messages will attract an adversary’s awareness. Steganography can resolve this difficulty by embedding secret data into an innocuous cover medium, such as image, video, text, audio, etc. The transmission of the innocuous medium will not arouse much suspicion. Therefore, whereas cryptography only protects the contents of the secret message, steganography conceals the very existence of secret information, making the secret communications imperceptible [6].

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Huang, F., Li, B., Shi, Y.Q., Huang, J., Xuan, G. (2010). Image Steganalysis. In: Sencar, H.T., Velastin, S., Nikolaidis, N., Lian, S. (eds) Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for Security Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 282. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11756-5_13

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