Using RZL coding to enhance histogram-pair based image reversible data hiding

Xuefeng Tong, Guorong Xuan, Guangce Shen, Xiaoli Huan, Yun Qing Shi

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Abstract

An improvement of histogram-pair based image reversible data hiding by using RZL (Reverse Zero-run Length) coding is proposed in this paper. The pre-processing to compress data to a shortest one is usually adopted for raising the PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) in data hiding. Recently, the disagreements appear that we can get better PSNR by using RZL coding after compression. We proved that our histogram-pair based image reversible data hiding is suitable to use RZL to improve the performance. The PSNR can be raised by using different RZL methods, different parameters, different embedded capacity and different images. It is hard to apply RZL to given original data with different lengths. We proposed a method to solve that by adding some 0 s to the original data to form a complete block, and the RZL needs an attached mark for lossless recovery. In our experiments it has been shown that the PSNR of image with histogram-pair based reversible data hiding by using RZL is higher than that without using RZL as the embedding data rate is not high. Zhang et al.'s RZL is better than Wong et al.'s in most cases. The average PSNR gain is about 1 dB for five test images at different payloads with the RZL used in this paper.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationDigital-Forensics and Watermarking - 12th International Workshop, IWDW 2013, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages153-166
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783662438855
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event12th International Workshop on Digital-Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2013 - Auckland, New Zealand
Duration: Oct 1 2013Oct 4 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8389 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other12th International Workshop on Digital-Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2013
Country/TerritoryNew Zealand
CityAuckland
Period10/1/1310/4/13

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

Keywords

  • Decrement rate of the number of "1"
  • Histogram-pair based image reversible data hiding
  • Increment rate of length
  • RZL (Reverse Zero-run Length) coding

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