scholarly journals Pixel Grouping of Digital Images for Reversible Data Hiding

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sultan Abdul Hasib ◽  
Hussain Md Abu Nyeem
Keyword(s):  
Data Hiding ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Rate Distortion ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Triangular Shape ◽  
Original Scheme ◽  
Pixel Grouping ◽  
Embedding Rate

Pixel Grouping (PG) of digital images has been a key consideration in recent development of the Reversible Data Hiding (RDH) schemes. While a PG kernel with neighborhood pixels helps compute image groups for better embedding rate-distortion performance, only horizontal neighborhood pixel group of size 1×3 has so far been considered. In this paper, we formulate PG kernels of sizes 3×1, 2×3 and 3×2 and investigate their effect on the rate-distortion performance of a prominent PG-based RDH scheme. Specially, a kernel of size 3×2 (or 2×3) that creates a pair of pixel-trios having triangular shape and offers a greater possible correlation among the pixels. This kernel thus can be better utilized for improving a PG-based RDH scheme. Considering this, we develop and present an improved PG-based RDH scheme and the computational models of its key processes. Experimental results demonstrated that our proposed RDH scheme offers reasonably better  embedding rate-distortion performance than the original scheme.

scholarly journals Reversible Data Hiding Based on DNA Computing

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Wang ◽  
Yingjie Xie ◽  
Shihua Zhou ◽  
Changjun Zhou ◽  
Xuedong Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Data Hiding ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
Dna Computing ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Signal To Noise ◽  
Histogram Modification ◽  
Biological Technology ◽  
Embedding Rate ◽  
Great Development

Biocomputing, especially DNA, computing has got great development. It is widely used in information security. In this paper, a novel algorithm of reversible data hiding based on DNA computing is proposed. Inspired by the algorithm of histogram modification, which is a classical algorithm for reversible data hiding, we combine it with DNA computing to realize this algorithm based on biological technology. Compared with previous results, our experimental results have significantly improved the ER (Embedding Rate). Furthermore, some PSNR (peak signal-to-noise ratios) of test images are also improved. Experimental results show that it is suitable for protecting the copyright of cover image in DNA-based information security.

scholarly journals Reversible Data Hiding Based on Adaptive Block Selection Strategy

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Dan Huang ◽  
Fangjun Huang
Keyword(s):  
Data Hiding ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
Visual Quality ◽  
Original Method ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Selection Strategy ◽  
Original Image ◽  
Histogram Shifting ◽  
Carrier Image ◽  
Embedding Rate

Recently, a reversible data hiding (RDH) method was proposed based on local histogram shifting. This method selects the peak bin of the local histogram as a reference and expands the two neighboring bins of the peak bin to carry the message bits. Since the peak bin keeps unchanged during the embedding process, the neighboring bins can be easily identified at the receiver end, and the original image can be restored completely while extracting the embedded data. In this article, as an extension of the algorithm, the authors propose an RDH scheme based on adaptive block selection strategy. Via a new block selection strategy, those blocks of the carrier image may carry more message bits whereas introducing less distortion will take precedence over data hiding. Experimental results demonstrate that higher visual quality can be obtained compared with the original method, especially when the embedding rate is low.

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 A Location Map Reduced Reversible Data Hiding Method Using Prediction Error Modification

2012 ◽  
Vol 6-7 ◽  
pp. 428-433
Author(s):  
Yan Wei Li ◽  
Mei Chen Wu ◽  
Tung Shou Chen ◽  
Wien Hong
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Data Hiding ◽  
Prediction Error ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Cover Image ◽  
Prediction Errors ◽  
Secret Data ◽  
Location Map ◽  
Comparable Image Quality

We propose a reversible data hiding technique to improve Hong and Chen’s (2010) method. Hong and Chen divide the cover image into pixel group, and use reference pixels to predict other pixel values. Data are then embedded by modifying the prediction errors. However, when solving the overflow and underflow problems, they employ a location map to record the position of saturated pixels, and these pixels will not be used to carry data. In their method, if the image has a plenty of saturated pixels, the payload is decreased significantly because a lot of saturated pixels will not joint the embedment. We improve Hong and Chen’s method such that the saturated pixels can be used to carry data. The positions of these saturated pixels are then recorded in a location map, and the location map is embedded together with the secret data. The experimental results illustrate that the proposed method has better payload, will providing a comparable image quality.

Reversible Data Hiding for DNA Sequences and Its Applications

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Tang ◽  
Guoli Ma ◽  
Weiming Zhang ◽  
Nenghai Yu
Keyword(s):  
Data Hiding ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
Tamper Detection ◽  
Dna Databases ◽  
Living Things ◽  
Embedding Rate

As the blueprint of vital activities of most living things on earth, DNA has important status and must be protected perfectly. And in current DNA databases, each sequence is stored with several notes that help to describe that sequence. However, these notes have no contribution to the protection of sequences. In this paper, the authors propose a reversible data hiding method for DNA sequences, which could be used either to embed sequence-related annotations, or to detect and restore tampers. When embedding sequence annotations, the methods works in low embedding rate mode. Only several bits of annotations are embedded. When used for tamper detection and tamper restoration, all possible embedding positions are utilized to assure the maximum restoration capacity.

scholarly journals An Improved Reversible Image Transformation Using K-Means Clustering and Block Patching

Information ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haidong Zhong ◽  
Xianyi Chen ◽  
Qinglong Tian
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Data Hiding ◽  
Privacy Protection ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
Auxiliary Information ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Image Transformation ◽  
Clustering Method ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Encrypted Images

Recently, reversible image transformation (RIT) technology has attracted considerable attention because it is able not only to generate stego-images that look similar to target images of the same size, but also to recover the secret image losslessly. Therefore, it is very useful in image privacy protection and reversible data hiding in encrypted images. However, the amount of accessorial information, for recording the transformation parameters, is very large in the traditional RIT method, which results in an abrupt degradation of the stego-image quality. In this paper, an improved RIT method for reducing the auxiliary information is proposed. Firstly, we divide secret and target images into non-overlapping blocks, and classify these blocks into K classes by using the K-means clustering method. Secondly, we match blocks in the last (K-T)-classes using the traditional RIT method for a threshold T, in which the secret and target blocks are paired with the same compound index. Thirdly, the accessorial information (AI) produced by the matching can be represented as a secret segment, and the secret segment can be hided by patching blocks in the first T-classes. Experimental results show that the proposed strategy can reduce the AI and improve the stego-image quality effectively.

A Block Based Reversible Data Hiding Scheme for Digital Images Using Optimal Value Computation

2016 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 2583-2596 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Denslin Brabin ◽  
J. Raja Paul Perinbam ◽  
D. Meganathan
Keyword(s):  
Data Hiding ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Optimal Value ◽  
Block Based
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