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Novel image authentication scheme with fine image quality for BTC-based compressed images

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A novel image authentication scheme which can protect the image integrity of the compressed images for block truncation coding (BTC) is proposed in this paper. In the proposed scheme, the authentication codes are embedded into the the quatization levels of each BTC-compressed image block by using reference matrix– RM B . The size of the authentication codes can be decided according to the user’s requirement by adjusting the value of B in Reference Matrix. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms previous approaches in image quality of the embedded image and high detecting accuracy.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China

    Wei Li & Jeng-Shyang Pan

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Management, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Chia-Chen Lin

  3. College of Information Science and Engineering, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, China

    Jeng-Shyang Pan

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Li, W., Lin, CC. & Pan, JS. Novel image authentication scheme with fine image quality for BTC-based compressed images. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 4771–4793 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-2502-z

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