Reversible data hiding based on block median preservation

  • Authors:

  • Hao Luo;Fa-Xin Yu;Hua Chen;Zheng-Liang Huang;Hui Li;Ping-Hui Wang

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China;School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China;School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China;School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China;School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China;School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper proposes a reversible data hiding scheme for gray level images. It exploits the high correlation among image block pixels to produce a difference histogram. Secret data is embedded based on a multi-level histogram shifting mechanism with reference to the integer median of each block. The image blocks are divided into four categories due to four corresponding embedding strategies, aiming at preserving the medians during data embedding. In decoder, the median pixels are retrieved first followed by the hidden data extraction, and the host image can be accurately recovered via an inverse histogram shifting mechanism after removing the secret data from the marked image. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of our scheme and demonstrate that it outperforms several previous methods in terms of capacity and marked image's quality.