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Calibration

Definition

A steganalysis technique that estimates the cover image statistics by cropping or decompressing and re-compressing the test image to produce a reference. Differences between the test image statistics and the calibrated reference reveal embedding distortion. Widely used against JPEG steganography.

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ISO 9001
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