Invertible secret image sharing with steganography

  • Authors:

  • Pei-Yu Lin;Chi-Shiang Chan

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Information Communication, Yuan Ze University, 135 Yuan-Tung Rd., Chung-Li 32003, Taiwan;Department of Information Science and Applications, Asia University, No. 500, Lioufeng Rd., Wufeng, Taichung 41354, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The essence of invertible image sharing approaches is that the revealed content of the secret image must be lossless and the distorted stego images must be able to be reverted to the original cover image. In order to achieve these purposes, we first transform the secret pixels into the m-ary notational system and then calculate the information data used to reconstruct original pixels from camouflaged pixels such that the information data and transformed secret data are shared using the (t,n)-threshold sharing scheme. In this way, we can retrieve the lossless secret image and reverse the stego image to the original image. Based on our experiments, the shadows can be successfully camouflaged in the cover image, and the stego images have satisfactory quality. Moreover, our scheme allows for a large capacity of embedded secret data.