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A Robust Reversible Data Hiding Scheme with Large Embedding Capacity and High Visual Quality

  • Munkbaatar, Doyoddorj (Department of Information Security, Graduate School, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Park, Young-Ho (Department of IT Convergence and Application Engineering, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Rhee, Kyung-Hyune (Department of IT Convergence and Application Engineering, Pukyong National University)
  • Received : 2012.02.15
  • Accepted : 2012.05.11
  • Published : 2012.07.31
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Abstract

Reversible data hiding scheme is a form of steganography in which the secret embedding data can be retrieved from a stego image for the purpose of identification, copyright protection and making a covert channel. The reversible data hiding should satisfy that not only are the distortions due to artifacts against the cover image invisible but also it has large embedding capacity as far as possible. In this paper, we propose a robust reversible data hiding scheme by exploiting the differences between a center pixel and its neighboring pixels in each sub-block of the image to embed secret data into extra space. Moreover, our scheme enhances the embedding capacity and can recover the embedded data from the stego image without causing any perceptible distortions to the cover image. Simulation results show that our proposed scheme has lower visible distortions in the stego image and provides robustness to geometrical image manipulations, such as rotation and cropping operations.

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