Data hiding in halftone images by stochastic error diffusion

Authors:
Qigong Zheng;O. C. Au
Affiliations:
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China;-
Venue:
ICASSP '01 Proceedings of the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2001. on IEEE International Conference - Volume 03
Year:
2001

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Abstract

We propose a novel method called DHSED (data hiding stochastic error diffusion) to hide binary visual patterns in two error diffused halftone images. While one halftone image is only a regular error diffused image, stochastic error diffusion is applied to the other image to generate special stochastic characteristics with respect to the first image such that the visual pattern would appear when the two halftone images are overlaid Simulation results show that the two halftone images have good visual quality, and the hidden pattern appears with "normal" and "lower-than-normal" intensity when the two halftone images are overlaid.