New design paradigm of distortion cost function for efficient JPEG steganography

• Published in: Signal processing Vol. 190; p. 108319
• Main Authors: Su, Wenkang, Ni, Jiangqun, Hu, Xianglei, Huang, Jiwu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.01.2022
• Subjects: Distortion cost function; Domain transformation; Exponential model; Information hiding; JPEG steganography; Distortion cost function; Information hiding; Exponential model; JPEG steganography; Domain transformation

•A novel design paradigm of distortion cost function for efficient JPEG steganography is proposed, which incorporates the statistics of both the spatial and DCT domains by a generalized Distortion Cost Domain Transformation (DCDT) function.•The proposed JPEG steganographic distortion cost function i...