Identifying Overlapping Ideas and Concepts of Methods that Hide Information

Scientific papers are not free from overlaps and even re-inventions that utilize a different terminology. With the ever-growing pile of published papers, scientists need to keep track of the available research, understand links and similarities between existing ideas and concepts. Steganography is the science of concealed storage and transfer of secret data. Like other scientific domains which have a multi-decade history, steganography contains sub-domains which grew partially independent, resulting in redundancy. This is why our taxonomy draws links between these sub-disciplines. On an abstract level, we show that ideas from one domain can also be found in the other, and we find a common term for such ideas.