Goma Tshivetta Christian Fersein Jorvialom^1,2, Lord Amoah^1,2,*

Journal of Quantum Computing, Vol.4, No.3, pp. 183-197, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jqc.2022.039913

Abstract Prior versions of reversible data hiding with contrast enhancement (RDHCE) algorithms strongly focused on enhancing the contrast of grayscale images. However, RDHCE has recently witnessed a rise in contrast enhancement algorithms concentrating on color images. This paper implies a method for color images that uses the RGB (red, green, and blue) color model and is based on bi-histogram shifting and image adjustment. Bi-histogram shifting is used to embed data and image adjustment to achieve contrast enhancement by adjusting the images resulting from each channel of the color images before combining them to generate the final enhanced image. Images are first… More >

Ahmad A. Mohammad^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1139-1156, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035964

Abstract Exploiting modification direction (EMD) based data hiding techniques (DHTs) provide moderate data hiding capacity and high-quality stego images. The overflow problem and the cyclic nature of the extraction function essentially hinder their application in several fields in which reversibility is necessary. Thus far, the few EMD reversible DHTs are complex and numerically demanding. This paper presents a novel EMD-based reversible DHT using dual-image. Two novel 2 × 4 modification lookup tables are introduced, replacing the reference matrix used in similar techniques and eliminating the numerically demanding search step in similar techniques. In the embedding step, one of the modification tables modifies a… More >

Jiaohua Qin^1,*, Zhibin He¹, Xuyu Xiang¹, Neal N. Xiong²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3613-3628, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.030372

Abstract Recently, reversible data hiding in encrypted images (RDHEI) based on pixel prediction has been a hot topic. However, existing schemes still employ a pixel predictor that ignores pixel changes in the diagonal direction during prediction, and the pixel labeling scheme is inflexible. To solve these problems, this paper proposes reversible data hiding in encrypted images based on adaptive prediction and labeling. First, we design an adaptive gradient prediction (AGP), which uses eight adjacent pixels and combines four scanning methods (i.e., horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and diagonal) for prediction. AGP can adaptively adjust the weight of the linear prediction model according to… More >

Chin-Feng Lee, Kuo-Chung Chan^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.2, pp. 1551-1566, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.026294

Abstract Dual-image reversible data hiding (RDH) is a technique for hiding important messages. This technology can be used to safely deliver secret messages to the recipient through dual images in an open network without being easily noticed. The recipient of the image must receive the two stego-images before the secret message can be completely retrieved. Imperceptibility is one of the main advantages of data hiding technology; to increase the imperceptibility, the quality requirements of the stego-images are relatively important. A dual steganographic image RDH method, called a DS-CF scheme that can achieve a better steganographic image quality using the center folding… More >

Amishi Mahesh Kapadia^*, P. Nithyanandam

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.1, pp. 537-552, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.027070

Abstract Reversible data hiding is an information hiding technique that requires the retrieval of the error free cover image after the extraction of the secret image. We suggested a technique in this research that uses a recursive embedding method to increase capacity substantially using the Integer wavelet transform and the Arnold transform. The notion of Integer wavelet transforms is to ensure that all coefficients of the cover images are used during embedding with an increase in payload. By scrambling the cover image, Arnold transform adds security to the information that gets embedded and also allows embedding more information in each iteration.… More >

Shuying Xu¹, Chin-Chen Chang¹, Ji-Hwei Horng^2,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 721-739, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.026046

Abstract Hiding secret data in digital images is one of the major research fields in information security. Recently, reversible data hiding in encrypted images has attracted extensive attention due to the emergence of cloud services. This paper proposes a novel reversible data hiding method in encrypted images based on an optimal multi-threshold block labeling technique (OMTBL-RDHEI). In our scheme, the content owner encrypts the cover image with block permutation, pixel permutation, and stream cipher, which preserve the in-block correlation of pixel values. After uploading to the cloud service, the data hider applies the prediction error rearrangement (PER), the optimal threshold selection… More >

S. Aiswarya^*, R. Gomathi

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.2, pp. 969-982, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.025475

Abstract Reversible Data Hiding (RDH) is the process of transferring secret data hidden inside cover media to the recipient so the recipient can securely retrieve both the secret data and cover media. The RDH approach is applied in this study in the field of telemedicine, and medical-secret data is conveyed privately via medical cover video. Morse code-based data encryption technique tends to encrypt the medical-secret data by compression using the Arithmetic coding technique. Discrete Shearlet transform (DST) compresses the selected frame from the medical cover video and the compressed secret data is embedded into the compressed frame using logical operations. On… More >

Yu Ren¹, Jiaohua Qin^1,*, Yun Tan¹, Neal N. Xiong²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.33, No.3, pp. 1439-1453, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.025485

Abstract In the field of reversible data hiding in encrypted images (RDH-EI), predict an image effectively and embed a message into the image with lower distortion are two crucial aspects. However, due to the linear regression prediction being sensitive to outliers, it is a challenge to improve the accuracy of predictions. To address this problem, this paper proposes an RDH-EI scheme based on adaptive prediction-error label map. In the prediction stage, an adaptive threshold estimation algorithm based on local complexity is proposed. Then, the pixels selection method based on gradient of image is designed to train the parameters of the prediction… More >

Xin Jin^*, Lanxin Su, Jitao Huang

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 69-82, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jihpp.2021.014108

Abstract In traditional secret sharing schemes, all shared images containing secret segments are needed to recover secret information. In this paper, a reversible data hiding scheme based on Shamir secret sharing is used. Secret information can be recovered even if only part of the encrypted sharing is owned. This method can reduce the vulnerability of traditional encryption sharing schemes to attack. Before uploading the secret information to the cloud server, embed the encrypted n segments of secret information into n different pictures. The receiver downloads t images from the cloud server (t < n), extracts the encrypted information using the watermark… More >

J. Hemalatha¹, S. Geetha², R. Geetha³, C. Balasubramanian⁴, Daniela Elena Popescu⁵, D. Jude Hemanth^6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.1, pp. 283-300, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017203

Abstract A novel image reversible data-hiding scheme based on primitive and varying radix numerical model is presented in this article. Using varying radix, variable sum of data may be embedded in various pixels of images. This scheme is made adaptive using the correlation of the neighboring pixels. Messages are embedded as blocks of non-uniform length in the high-frequency regions of the rhombus mean interpolated image. A higher amount of data is embedded in the high-frequency regions and lesser data in the low-frequency regions of the image. The size of the embedded data depends on the statistics of the pixel distribution in… More >