On Performance Improvement Of Reversible Data Hiding With Contrast Enhancement

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (10) ◽  
pp. 1584-1596
Author(s):  
Haishan Chen ◽  
Junying Yuan ◽  
Wien Hong ◽  
Jiangqun Ni ◽  
Tung-Shou Chen
Keyword(s):  
Contrast Enhancement ◽  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Data Hiding ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
Image Contrast ◽  
Embedding Capacity ◽  
Visible Image ◽  
Multiple Cycles ◽  
Embedding Rate

Abstract Reversible data hiding (RDH) with contrast enhancement (RDH-CE) is a special type of RDH in improving the subjective visual perception by enhancing the image contrast during the process of data embedding. In RDH-CE, data hiding is achieved via pairwise histogram expansion, and the embedding rate can be increased by performing multiple cycles of histogram expansions. However, when embedding rate gets high, human visible image degradation is observed. Previous work designed an upper bound of the embedding level for RDH-CE, which effectively avoids image over-sharping but offers limited embedding capacity. In this paper, a better tunable bound is designed to enhance the embedding capacity of RDH-CE by exploiting the characteristics of histogram distribution. Furthermore, the objective distortion introduced by histogram pre-shifting is minimized when the embedding level is no more than the upper bound, and the human visible degradation is minimized when the embedding level exceeds the limitation of the proposed upper bound. Experimental results validate that the proposed method provides appropriate upper bound of the embedding level, increases the effective embedding capacity and offers better image contrast.

scholarly journals Reversible Data Hiding With Image Contrast Enhancement Based on Two-Dimensional Histogram Modification

IEEE Access ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 83332-83342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao-Tian Wu ◽  
Weiqi Mai ◽  
Shuyi Meng ◽  
Yiu-Ming Cheung ◽  
Shaohua Tang
Keyword(s):  
Contrast Enhancement ◽  
Data Hiding ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
Image Contrast ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Histogram Modification ◽  
Image Contrast Enhancement

scholarly journals Reversible Data Hiding Scheme with High Embedding Capacity Using Semi-Indicator-Free Strategy

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Jiann-Der Lee ◽  
Yaw-Hwang Chiou ◽  
Jing-Ming Guo
Keyword(s):  
Vector Quantization ◽  
Data Hiding ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
Embedding Capacity ◽  
Bit Rate ◽  
Secret Data ◽  
Compressed Images ◽  
Search Order ◽  
High Embedding Capacity ◽  
Embedding Rate

A novel reversible data-hiding scheme is proposed to embed secret data into a side-matched-vector-quantization- (SMVQ-) compressed image and achieve lossless reconstruction of a vector-quantization- (VQ-) compressed image. The rather random distributed histogram of a VQ-compressed image can be relocated to locations close to zero by SMVQ prediction. With this strategy, fewer bits can be utilized to encode SMVQ indices with very small values. Moreover, no indicator is required to encode these indices, which yields extrahiding space to hide secret data. Hence, high embedding capacity and low bit rate scenarios are deposited. More specifically, in terms of the embedding rate, the bit rate, and the embedding capacity, experimental results show that the performance of the proposed scheme is superior to those of the former data hiding schemes for VQ-based, VQ/SMVQ-based, and search-order-coding- (SOC-) based compressed images.

scholarly journals Reversible Data Hiding in Encrypted Image Based on Multi-MSB Embedding Strategy

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 2058
Author(s):  
Dewang Wang ◽  
Xianquan Zhang ◽  
Chunqiang Yu ◽  
Zhenjun Tang
Keyword(s):  
Data Hiding ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
Visual Quality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Prediction Errors ◽  
Original Image ◽  
Embedding Capacity ◽  
Encrypted Image ◽  
Embedding Strategy ◽  
Embedding Rate

In this paper, a reversible data hiding method in encrypted image (RDHEI) is proposed. Prior to image encryption, the embeddable pixels are selected from an original image according to prediction errors due to adjacent pixels with strong correlation. Then the embeddable pixels and the other pixels are both rearranged and encrypted to generate an encrypted image. Secret bits are directly embedded into the multiple MSBs (most significant bit) of the embeddable pixels in the encrypted image to generate a marked encrypted image during the encoding phase. In the decoding phase, secret bits can be extracted from the multiple MSBs of the embeddable pixels in the marked encrypted image. Moreover, the original embeddable pixels are restored losslessly by using correlation of the adjacent pixels. Thus, a reconstructed image with high visual quality can be obtained only when the encryption key is available. Since exploiting multiple MSBs of the embeddable pixels, the proposed method can obtain a very large embedding capacity. Experimental results show that the proposed method is able to achieve an average embedding rate as large as 1.7215 bpp (bits per pixel) for the BOW-2 database.

Visible-Imperceptible Image Watermarking based on Reversible Data Hiding with Contrast Enhancement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Sarabia-Lopez ◽  
Diana Nunez-Ramirez ◽  
David Mata-Mendoza ◽  
Eduardo Fragoso-Navarro ◽  
Manuel Cedillo-Hernandez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Contrast Enhancement ◽  
Data Hiding ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
Image Watermarking

scholarly journals Separable Reversible Data Hiding in Encryption Image with Two-Tuples Coding

Computers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Jijun Wang ◽  
Soo Fun Tan
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Data Hiding ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
High Order ◽  
Coding Method ◽  
Military Applications ◽  
Social Cloud ◽  
Carrier Image ◽  
Security Surveillance ◽  
Embedding Rate

Separable Reversible Data Hiding in Encryption Image (RDH-EI) has become widely used in clinical and military applications, social cloud and security surveillance in recent years, contributing significantly to preserving the privacy of digital images. Aiming to address the shortcomings of recent works that directed to achieve high embedding rate by compensating image quality, security, reversible and separable properties, we propose a two-tuples coding method by considering the intrinsic adjacent pixels characteristics of the carrier image, which have a high redundancy between high-order bits. Subsequently, we construct RDH-EI scheme by using high-order bits compression, low-order bits combination, vacancy filling, data embedding and pixel diffusion. Unlike the conventional RDH-EI practices, which have suffered from the deterioration of the original image while embedding additional data, the content owner in our scheme generates the embeddable space in advance, thus lessening the risk of image destruction on the data hider side. The experimental results indicate the effectiveness of our scheme. A ratio of 28.91% effectively compressed the carrier images, and the embedding rate increased to 1.753 bpp with a higher image quality, measured in the PSNR of 45.76 dB.

scholarly journals Efficient Reversible Data Hiding Scheme for AMBTC-Compressed Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 6741
Author(s):  
Chia-Chen Lin ◽  
Thai-Son Nguyen ◽  
Chin-Chen Chang ◽  
Wen-Chi Chang
Keyword(s):  
Data Hiding ◽  
Free Space ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Embedding Capacity ◽  
Absolute Moment ◽  
Compressed Images ◽  
High Embedding Capacity ◽  
Significant Attention ◽  
Efficiency Rate

Reversible data hiding has attracted significant attention from researchers because it can extract an embedded secret message correctly and recover a cover image without distortion. In this paper, a novel, efficient reversible data hiding scheme is proposed for absolute moment block truncation code (AMBTC) compressed images. The proposed scheme is based on the high correlation of neighboring values in two mean tables of AMBTC-compressed images to further losslessly encode these values and create free space for containing a secret message. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed scheme obtained a high embedding capacity and guaranteed the same PSNRs as the traditional AMBTC algorithm. In addition, the proposed scheme achieved a higher embedding capacity and higher efficiency rate than those of some previous schemes while maintaining an acceptable bit rate.

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