This work proposes an improved reversible data hiding scheme in encrypted images using parametric binary tree labeling(IPBTL-RDHEI), which takes advantage of the spatial correlation in the entire original image not in small image blocks to reserve room for embedding data before image encryption, then the original image is encrypted with a secret key and parametric binary tree labeling is used to label image pixels in two different categories. According to the experimental results, compared with several state-of-the-art methods, the proposed IPBTL-RDHEI method achieves higher embedding rate and outperforms the competitors. Due to the reversibility of IPBTL-RDHEI, the original content of the image and the secret information can be restored and extracted losslessly and separately.
A novel watermarking sharing system having the ability of sharing gray-level secret images with multi-user is proposed. Multiple-based number system is used to split the secret into n meaningless shares, each share is embedded into respective cover image with controlled distortion and to be assigned to each user afterwards. The architecture of the proposed watermarking system is an open issue, which means the system is easy to be implemented according to the purposes and concerns of the users. The main feature of the proposed system is sharing a secret of gray-level image among multi-users; another application of such system is ownership verification. To reveal the secret, the necessary amount of shares has to be presented. That is, the secret can be recovered even if some shares were lost. Simulation results show that the recovered secret has robustness against a wide range of imaging processing operations.
As a technology that can protect the information on the original image of being disclosed and accurately extract the embedded information, the reversible data hiding in encrypted images (RDHEI) has been widely concerned by researchers. One of the current challenges is how to further improve the performance of the RDHEI method. In this paper, a highcapacity RDHEI method based on bit plane compression of prediction error is proposed. Firstly, the image owner calculates the prediction error of the original image, next rearranges and compresses the obtained bit plane of prediction error, so as to reserve the room for embedding information, and then uses the encryption key to encrypt the prediction error after vacating the room. The information hiding device encrypts the additional information by the information hiding key, and embeds additional information into the encrypted image. Finally, the image receiver extracts the additional information and recovers the image according to the acquired key. This paper makes full use of the correlation between neighboring pixels and obtains high capacity. Experimental results show that this method can provide higher embedding capacity than state-of-the-art methods.
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