Reversible data hiding based on block median preservation

Information Sciences

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 308-328

  Luo, Hao ^a   Yu, Fa Xin ^a   Chen, Hua ^a   Huang, Zheng Liang ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Wang, Ping Hui ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Block median preservation; Histogram shifting; Image subsampling; Reversible data hiding

Indexed keywords

BLOCK MEDIAN PRESERVATION; DATA EMBEDDING; DATA EXTRACTION; DIFFERENCE HISTOGRAMS; GRAY LEVEL IMAGE; HISTOGRAM SHIFTING; HOST IMAGES; IMAGE BLOCKS; IMAGE SUBSAMPLING; MARKED IMAGE; MULTI-LEVEL; REVERSIBLE DATA HIDING; SECRET DATA;

PIXELS; STEGANOGRAPHY;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 78049351319     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2010.09.022     Document Type: Article

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