Privacy-Aware Reversible Watermarking in Cloud Computing Environments

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Abstract

As an interdisciplinary research between watermarking and cryptography, privacy-aware reversible watermarking permits a party to entrust the task of embedding watermarks to a cloud service provider without compromising information privacy. The early development of schemes was primarily based upon traditional symmetric-key cryptosystems, which involve an extra implementation cost of key exchange. Although recent research attentions were drawn to schemes compatible with asymmetric-key cryptosystems, there were notable limitations in the practical aspects. In particular, the host signal must either be enciphered in a redundant way or be pre-processed prior to encryption, which would largely limit the storage efficiency and scheme universality. To relax the restrictions, we propose a novel research paradigm and devise different schemes compatible with different homomorphic cryptosystems. In the proposed schemes, the encoding function is recognised as an operation of adding noise, whereas the decoding function is perceived as a corresponding denoising process. Both online and offline content-adaptive predictors are developed to assist watermark decoding for various operational requirements. A three-way tradeoff between the capacity, fidelity, and reversibility is analysed mathematically and empirically. It is shown that the proposed schemes achieve the state-of-the-art performance.

Identifier

85056593040 (Scopus)

Publication Title

IEEE Access

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2880904

e-ISSN

21693536

First Page

70720

Last Page

70733

Volume

6

Grant

690907

Fund Ref

Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

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