Reversible data hiding is a data-hiding technique which has the ability to recover the original version from stego-images after the secret information is extracted. In this paper, we propose a novel reversible data-hiding scheme based on an enhanced reduced difference-expansion technique. In the proposed scheme, the original image is divided into non-overlapping quad-blocks for embedding data. Then, to enhance the security, the secret bits are encrypted based on the encryption key and a symmetry-based strategy. To improve embedding capacity further, two adjacent encrypted bits are converted into a corresponding decimal digit. Difference expansion (DE) technique is applied to embed a decimal form instead of a binary version. Moreover, to maintain the good image quality, the enhanced reduced difference-expansion technique is used to reduce the original difference values so that it is suitable for decimal embedding. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed scheme has achieved better performance in comparison with previous solutions.
In this paper, we improved the reversible data hiding method of Qu’s et al. The original image is divided into overlapped equalsize blocks (2x2). Each of block is used to predict a pixel. Then a histogram is constructed from the different value between the original pixel and the prediction pixel. In order to increase thecapacity, the proposed method combination with EMD table to change the histogram. According to Qu’s method, each pixel satisfies only one bit of information is embedded. In our method, by using the EMD table, each pair of eligible pixels can embed three bits of information. Experimental results show that the proposed method increases 1.5 times the hidden performance while the image quality changes negligibly.
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