Lossless data hiding based on histogram modification of difference images

  • Authors:
  • Sang-Kwang Lee;Young-Ho Suh;Yo-Sung Ho

  • Affiliations:
  • Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Deajeon, Korea;Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Deajeon, Korea;Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea

  • Venue:
  • PCM'04 Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim conference on Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new lossless data hiding method where distortion due to data embedding can be completely removed from the watermarked image after the watermark has been extracted. In the proposed method, we utilize characteristics of the difference image and modify pixel values slightly to embed the data. We show that the lower bound of the PSNR (peak-signal-to-noise-ratio) values for typical images are about 51.14 dB. Moreover, the proposed method is quite simple and fast. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can embed a large amount of data while keeping high visual quality of test images.