Reversible data hiding

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2006

Abstract

A novel reversible data hiding algorithm, which can recover the original image without any distortion from the marked image after the hidden data have been extracted, is presented in this paper. This algorithm utilizes the zero or the minimum points of the histogram of an image and slightly modifies the pixel grayscale values to embed data into the image. It can embed more data than many of the existing reversible data hiding algorithms. It is proved analytically and shown experimentally that the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of the marked image generated by this method versus the original image is guaranteed to be above 48 dB. This lower bound of PSNR is much higher than that of all reversible data hiding techniques reported in the literature. The computational complexity of our proposed technique is low and the execution time is short. The algorithm has been successfully applied to a wide range of images, including commonly used images, medical images, texture images, aerial images and all of the 1096 images in CorelDraw database. Experimental results and performance comparison with other reversible data hiding schemes are presented to demonstrate the validity of the proposed algorithm. © 2006 IEEE.

Identifier

33645157142 (Scopus)

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSVT.2006.869964

ISSN

10518215

First Page

354

Last Page

361

Issue

3

Volume

16

Fund Ref

State of New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology

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