Multimedia technologies are becoming more sophisticated, enabling the Internet to accommodate a rapidly growing audience with a full range of services and efficient delivery methods. Although the Internet now puts communication, education, commerce and socialization at our finger tips, its rapid growth has raised some weighty security concerns with respect to multimedia content. The owners of this content face enormous challenges in safeguarding their intellectual property, while still exploiting the Internet as an important resource for commerce. Data Hiding Fundamentals and Applications focuses on the theory and state-of-the-art applications of content security and data hiding in digital multimedia. One of the pillars of content security solutions is the imperceptible insertion of information into multimedia data for security purposes; the idea is that this inserted information will allow detection of unauthorized usage. - Provides a theoretical framework for data hiding, in a signal processing context - Realistic applications in secure, multimedia delivery - Compression robust data hiding - Data hiding for proof of ownership--WATERMARKING - Data hiding algorithms for image and video watermarking

Multimedia technologies are becoming more sophisticated, enabling the Internet to accommodate a rapidly growing audience with a full range of services and efficient delivery methods. Although the Internet now puts communication, education, commerce and socialization at our finger tips, its rapid growth has raised some weighty security concerns with respect to multimedia content. The owners of this content face enormous challenges in safeguarding their intellectual property, while still exploiting the Internet as an important resource for commerce. Data Hiding Fundamentals and Applications focuses on the theory and state-of-the-art applications of content security and data hiding in digital multimedia. One of the pillars of content security solutions is the imperceptible insertion of information into multimedia data for security purposes; the idea is that this inserted information will allow detection of unauthorized usage. Provides a theoretical framework for data hiding, in a signal processing context Realistic applications in secure, multimedia delivery Compression robust data hiding Data hiding for proof of ownership--WATERMARKING Data hiding algorithms for image and video watermarking

This book lays out all the latest research in the area of multimedia data hiding. The book introduces multimedia signal processing and information hiding techniques. It includes multimedia representation, digital watermarking fundamentals and requirements of watermarking. It moves on to cover the recent advances in multimedia signal processing, before presenting information hiding techniques including steganography, secret sharing and watermarking. The final part of this book includes practical applications of intelligent multimedia signal processing and data hiding systems.

Multimedia technologies are becoming more sophisticated, enabling the Internet to accommodate a rapidly growing audience with a full range of services and efficient delivery methods. Although the Internet now puts communication, education, commerce and socialization at our finger tips, its rapid growth has raised some weighty security concerns with respect to multimedia content. This book focuses on the theory and state-of-the-art applications of content security. First part of this book highlights on quality access control of compressed & uncompressed gray scale & color images. The second part focuses on development of various data hiding schemes for error concealment for digital images, while the third part spotlights on development of data hiding scheme for the application of digital rights management. Major contributions in this part lie on access control & tracking of illicit distribution, authentication, integrity verification, copyright protection, tamper detection & correction. This book would be useful for research scholars, engineers, mobile & video company, banking service, computer scientists, forensic officer, medical industry, manufacturers & vendors and technicians.

Understanding network vulnerabilities in order to protect networks from external and internal threats is vital to the world's economy and should be given the highest priority. This volume discusses topics such as network security, information security and coding.

Describes Information Hiding in communication networks, and highlights their important issues, challenges, trends, and applications. Highlights development trends and potential future directions of Information Hiding Introduces a new classification and taxonomy for modern data hiding techniques Presents different types of network steganography mechanisms Introduces several example applications of information hiding in communication networks including some recent covert communication techniques in popular Internet services

As data hiding detection and forensic techniques have matured, people are creating more advanced stealth methods for spying, corporate espionage, terrorism, and cyber warfare all to avoid detection. Data Hiding provides an exploration into the present day and next generation of tools and techniques used in covert communications, advanced malware methods and data concealment tactics. The hiding techniques outlined include the latest technologies including mobile devices, multimedia, virtualization and others. These concepts provide corporate, goverment and military personnel with the knowledge to investigate and defend against insider threats, spy techniques, espionage, advanced malware and secret communications. By understanding the plethora of threats, you will gain an understanding of the methods to defend oneself from these threats through detection, investigation, mitigation and prevention. - Provides many real-world examples of data concealment on the latest technologies including iOS, Android, VMware, MacOS X, Linux and Windows 7 - Dives deep into the less known approaches to data hiding, covert communications, and advanced malware - Includes never before published information about next generation methods of data hiding - Outlines a well-defined methodology for countering threats - Looks ahead at future predictions for data hiding