Data hiding based on the similarity between neighboring pixels with reversibility

  • Authors:
  • Yu-Chiang Li;Chia-Ming Yeh;Chin-Chen Chang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Southern Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taiwan, ROC and Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwa ...

  • Venue:
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The technique of reversible data hiding recovers the original image from a stego-image without distortion after the hidden data are extracted. A natural image usually contains several smooth areas. The difference between two adjacent pixels has a high probability of being a small value. Therefore, this study proposed a novel reversible data hiding method, Adjacent Pixel Difference (APD), which employs the histogram of the pixel difference sequence to increase the embedding capacity. Experimental results reveal that APD achieves a high embedded capacity and still maintains a high stego-image quality. Furthermore, the stego-image quality and embedded capacity of the APD method outperform those of NSAS, F&S and T&H.