A general framework for shiftable position-based dual-image reversible data hiding

作者:Yao, Heng; Qin, Chuan; Tang, Zhenjun*; Zhang, Xinpeng
来源:EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2018, 2018(1): 41.
DOI:10.1186/s13640-018-0281-y

摘要

This paper proposes an improved method for shiftable position-based dual-image reversible data hiding. During the procedure of embedding data, the total number of shiftable coordinates is set as the parameter to make a trade-off between distortion and embedding rate. First, the optimal parameter is sought and the one-to-one code table is generated according to the expected embedding rate. Then, the message data is embedded into the cover image through a simple and effective code table lookup scheme to generate two visually similar stego images. During the procedure of data extraction, the message can be extracted in a reverse manner. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method has higher PSNR (peak signal-to-noise ratio) values than our previous work in the case of high embedding rates.