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Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques

Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques is a research topic within Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1970. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on digital watermarking techniques, including reversible data embedding, steganography, image authentication, and robust hashing. It explores methods for information embedding in digital images, utilizing deep learning approaches, and addressing spatial domain challenges.

  • Reversible Data Embedding
  • Steganography
  • Image Authentication
  • Data Hiding
  • Digital Image
  • Watermarking
  • Robust Hashing
  • Information Embedding
  • Deep Learning
  • Spatial Domain
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1970
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques

Which countries lead Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.2k and 1.8k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.2k works
  2. 2 India 1.8k works
  3. 3 United States 288 works
  4. 4 Iraq 191 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 143 works
  6. 6 Taiwan 135 works
  7. 7 Saudi Arabia 129 works
  8. 8 ?? 111 works
  9. 9 Japan 94 works
  10. 10 Egypt 88 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 42.4%India: 34.8%United States: 5.6%Iraq: 3.7%6 others listed: 13.5%42%largest
China2,197 · 42.4%India1,801 · 34.8%United States288 · 5.6%Iraq191 · 3.7%6 others listed700 · 13.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, SRM Institute of Science and Technology publishes the most Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vellore Institute of Technology University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 67 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 55 works
  3. 3 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 54 works
  4. 4 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 40 works
  5. 5 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 40 works
  6. 6 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 36 works
  7. 7 Shanghai UniversityChina 34 works
  8. 8 Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 32 works
  9. 9 Manipal Academy of Higher EducationIndia 31 works
  10. 10 Saveetha UniversityIndia 31 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques include Xiangyu Zhang, Xiaogang Wang and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Xiangyu Zhang 327k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  5. 5 Anil Kumar Jain United States 160k citations
  6. 6 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques?

The most cited paper in Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques is "Secure spread spectrum watermarking for multimedia" (Ingemar Johansson Cox, Joe Kilian, Frank Thomson Leighton et al., 1997), with 5,306 citations. Next come "Slime mould algorithm: A new method for stochastic optimization" (3,044) and "Techniques for data hiding" (2,787).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Secure spread spectrum watermarking for multimedia Ingemar Johansson Cox, Joe Kilian, Frank Thomson Leighton et al. · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Dec 1997 5,306
2 Slime mould algorithm: A new method for stochastic optimization Shimin Li, Huiling Chen, Mingjing Wang et al. · Future Generation Computer Systems Open access 3 Apr 2020 3,044
3 Techniques for data hiding Walter R. Bender, Daniel Gruhl, Norishige Morimoto et al. · IBM Systems Journal 1996 2,787
4 Reversible data hiding Zhicheng Ni, Yun-Qing Shi, Nirwan Ansari et al. · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Mar 2006 2,653
5 Information hiding-a survey Fabien A. P. Petitcolas, Ross Anderson, Markus Kühn · Proceedings of the IEEE Jul 1999 2,558
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chennai (India), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Thanjavur.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 324 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 174 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 137 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 132 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 118 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 112 works
  7. 7 BaghdadIraq 95 works
  8. 8 ChangshaChina 83 works
  9. 9 CoimbatoreIndia 77 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 76 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ThanjavurIN · 24.2 works23×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, Dalian Maritime University, National Institute of Technology Patna and Dalian Polytechnic University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 24.85%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Dalian Polytechnic U…Dalian Maritime Univ…National Institute o…Princess Nourah bint…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 68.437.2%11.0×22 -7.4%
2National Institute of Technology PatnaIndia 67.534.8%21.9×18 +56.3%
3Dalian Polytechnic UniversityChina 63.041.0%9.7×10 +62.9%
4Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversitySaudi Arabia 61.422.4%9.0×13 +356.6%
5Umm al-Qura UniversitySaudi Arabia 60.733.3%7.5×11 -12.2%
6SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 60.09.4%11.6×66 +243.8%
7Shanghai UniversityChina 57.614.5%8.5×34 +27.7%
8Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 56.713.5%14.1×32 +13.5%
9Guangxi Normal UniversityChina 56.519.7%17.4×21 +62.9%
10Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 54.022.7%2.8×26 +104.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques, country by country

Is Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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