LOCO-I: a low complexity, context-based, lossless image compression algorithm
DCC '96 Proceedings of the Conference on Data Compression
A difference expansion oriented data hiding scheme for restoring the original host images
Journal of Systems and Software
Reversible steganographic method using SMVQ approach based on declustering
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Reversible hiding in DCT-based compressed images
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Prediction-based reversible data hiding
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Reversible data hiding based on histogram modification of pixel differences
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Embedding capacity raising in reversible data hiding based on prediction of difference expansion
Journal of Systems and Software
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Reversible watermark using the difference expansion of a generalized integer transform
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Lossless generalized-LSB data embedding
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Expansion Embedding Techniques for Reversible Watermarking
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Reversible data embedding using a difference expansion
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
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Data hiding in digital images can be used in secure communication, copyright protection, and etc. For some important images, such as medical and military images, the original images must be recovered after extracting the embedded data, because distortions are unacceptable for these kinds of images. In this paper, we propose a reversible data hiding method based on prediction-error expansion. Each pixel of the cover image, excluding the first row and the first column, is predicted by its top and left neighboring pixels in the raster-scanning order. The relationship between the prediction error and the pre-determined threshold decides whether the current pixel is embeddable or not. Since the proposed prediction process provides small prediction error, our method can achieve high embedding rate and good visual quality of the stego image by the expansion of prediction error. During the procedure of extraction and recovery, the same prediction process is conducted, and then the embedded secret data and the cover image can be recovered correctly. The histogram squeezing technique is utilized to prevent underflow and overflow problems. Experimental results show that the proposed method provides better performance than some other methods.