An inpainting-assisted reversible steganographic scheme using a histogram shifting mechanism

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1109-1118

  Qin, Chuan ^a   Chang, Chin Chen ^b,c   Huang, Ying Hsuan ^d   Liao, Li Ting ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Image inpainting; Predictionerror shifting; Reversible steganography; Terms Embedding rate; Visual quality

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS; EXTRACTION PROCEDURE; GEOMETRIC INFORMATION; IMAGE INPAINTING; PREDICTIONERROR SHIFTING; REVERSIBLE STEGANOGRAPHY; STEGANOGRAPHIC SCHEMES; VISUAL QUALITIES;

FORECASTING; GRAPHIC METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PIXELS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84897584166     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2012.2224052     Document Type: Article

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