The main objective of this chapter is to present the contemporary approaches to the steganography/data hiding applications, which are based on image histogram modifications. An image histogram is a type of histogram acting as a graphical representation of the tonal distribution in a digital image. The stego images that are produced by using such data hiding techniques are inherently robust agai...

Most of the histogram-based watermarking methods focused on the geometric invariance feature more while paying less attention to the robustness to some common image processing attacks like JPEG compression. In this paper, we propose a new histogram modification scheme considering the visual quality of the watermarked image while combining block dividing and histogram statistics for the first ti...

This paper presents a novel histogram thresholding technique based on the beam theory of solid mechanics and the minimization of ambiguity in information. First, a beam theory based histogram modification process is carried out. This beam theory based process considers a distance measure in order to modify the shape of the histogram. The ambiguity in the overall information given by the modifie...

A method for an anomaly detection system was developed to automate process of recognizing an anomaly of roentgen image by utilizing fuzzy histogram hyperbolization image enhancement and gray level co-occurrence matrix(GLCM). The system consists of image acquisition, pre-processor, feature extractor, response selector and output. Fuzzy Histogram Hyperbolization is chosen to improve the quality o...

A prototype of an anomaly detection system was developed to automate process of recognizing an anomaly of roentgen image by utilizing fuzzy histogram hyperbolization image enhancement and back propagation artificial neural network. The system consists of image acquisition, pre-processor, feature extractor, response selector and output. Fuzzy Histogram Hyperbolization is chosen to improve the qu...

This paper proposes a histogram shifting method for image lossless data hiding in integer wavelet transform domain. This algorithm hides data into wavelet coefficients of high frequency subbands. It shifts a part of the histogram of high frequency wavelet subbands and thus embeds data by using the created histogram zero-point. This shifting process may be sequentially carried out if necessary. ...

This paper describes a novel modification of Histogram Equalization (HEQ) approach to robust speech recognition. We propose separate equalization of the high frequency (HF) and low frequency (LF) bands. We study different combinations of the sub-band equalization and obtain best results when we perform a two-stage equalization. First, conventional HEQ is performed on the cepstral features, whic...