Appendix C - 12-Week Checklist

Appendix C - 12-Week Checklist#

Week

Topic

Required action

Date

1

Images & binary

Run the bit operations; state what LSB means

2

Python environment

pip install; run run_e2e.py; save one grayscale image

3

LSB & blind analysis

Embed -> analyze experiment; read test_steg.py output

4

Chi-square / RS

Explain Gn collapse to a friend; run test_false_positive.py

5

Matrix embedding / F5

Work one p=3 example; verify with matrix_demo

6

nsF5 / wet paper

Read the wet-paper section of ns5_core.py; run its test

7

Hash keying

Wrong-password and one-pixel experiments; write the keying boundary

8

ML foundations

Run v1 training; explain GroupKFold and AUC

9

ML steganalysis

Compare 11-D / 143-D / 53-D predictions; explain SRM and dual models

10

Engineering

Run cppembed.selfcheck and featurize_v2_gpu; read SRM/multi-source pipeline

11

Capstone

Choose a direction and finish 70% of code/experiments

12

Presentation

Finish report and demo; answer three questions from 10.5 unaided