15Part Review on Multimedia Security

Alex C. Kot

Huijuan Yang

Hong Cao

15.1 Information Hiding for Digital Media

The history of secret communication can be traced back to ancient greece [1,2]. Several technologies commonly used to describe the secret communication by hiding information into audio, text, binary images, grayscale and color images, 3D images and video are “Steganography,” “Watermarking,” and “Data Hiding.”

Steganography refers to the techniques used for secret communication by embedding the information into another unsuspected data, which generally relies on the assumption that the existence of the convert communication is unknown to the third parties and the methods are generally not robust [3,4].

Watermarking refers to the techniques ...

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