A high payload frequency-based reversible image hiding method

  • Authors:

  • Chin-Chen Chang;Pei-Yan Pai;Chia-Ming Yeh;Yung-Kuan Chan

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taiwan, ROC and Department of Computer Science, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Management Information Systems, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

To provide both a high payload capacity and a good stego-image quality, a high payload frequency-based reversible image hiding (HPFRIH) method was presented in this paper. These performances can be achieved by transforming a cover image from the spatial domain into the frequency domain through Haar digital wavelet transform (HDWT) method followed by an adaptive arithmetic coding method to encode the HDWT coefficients in a high-frequency band. The HPFRIH method was used to conceal both the compressed data and the secret data in the high-frequency band. This simple method can completely reconstruct the cover image only from the stego-image. Moreover, experimental results showed that the HPFRIH method offers both impressive hiding capacity and satisfied stego-image quality.