Li Liu¹, Jing Li¹, Yingchun Wu¹, Chin-Chen Chang^2,*, Anhong Wang¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.2, pp. 1415-1432, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.040039

Abstract Data hiding (DH) is an important technology for securely transmitting secret data in networks, and has increasing become a research hotspot throughout the world. However, for Joint photographic experts group (JPEG) images, it is difficult to balance the contradiction among embedded capacity, visual quality and the file size increment in existing data hiding schemes. Thus, to deal with this problem, a high-imperceptibility data hiding for JPEG images is proposed based on direction modification. First, this proposed scheme sorts all of the quantized discrete cosine transform (DCT) block in ascending order according to the number of non-consecutive-zero alternating current (AC) coefficients.… More >

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 >

Alaknanda S. Patil^1,*, G. Sundari¹, Arun Kumar Sivaraman²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.2, pp. 1707-1721, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.034270

Abstract The intact data transmission to the authentic user is becoming crucial at every moment in the current era. Steganography; is a technique for concealing the hidden message in any cover media such as image, video; and audio to increase the protection of data. The resilience and imperceptibility are improved by choosing an appropriate embedding position. This paper gives a novel system to immerse the secret information in different videos with different methods. An audio and video steganography with novel amalgamations are implemented to immerse the confidential auditory information and the authentic user’s face image. A hidden message is first included… 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 >

Al-Hussien Seddik¹, Mohammed Salah², Gamal Behery², Ahmed El-harby², Ahmed Ismail Ebada², Sokea Teng³, Yunyoung Nam^3,*, Mohamed Abouhawwash^4,5

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 5087-5103, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035364

Abstract The ability of any steganography system to correctly retrieve the secret message is the primary criterion for measuring its efficiency. Recently, researchers have tried to generate a new natural image driven from only the secret message bits rather than using a cover to embed the secret message within it; this is called the stego image. This paper proposes a new secured coverless steganography system using a generative mathematical model based on semi Quick Response (QR) code and maze game image generation. This system consists of two components. The first component contains two processes, encryption process, and hiding process. The encryption… More >

Saima Kanwal¹, Feng Tao^1,*, Ahmad Almogren², Ateeq Ur Rehman³, Rizwan Taj¹, Ayman Radwan⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.1, pp. 201-219, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020255

Abstract The authenticity and integrity of healthcare is the primary objective. Numerous reversible watermarking schemes have been developed to improve the primary objective but increasing the quantity of embedding data leads to covering image distortion and visual quality resulting in data security detection. A trade-off between robustness, imperceptibility, and embedded capacity is difficult to achieve with current algorithms due to limitations in their ability. Keeping this purpose insight, an improved reversibility watermarking methodology is proposed to maximize data embedding capacity and imperceptibility while maintaining data security as a primary concern. A key is generated by a random path with minimum bit… 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 >