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Reversible Data Hiding Using the Companding Technique and Improved DE Method

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A novel reversible data hiding scheme based on the companding technique and an improved difference expansion (DE) method is presented in this article. The companding technique is employed to embed payload into high frequency bands in the integer wavelet transform (IWT) domain. A refined method based on histogram modification is proposed as a remedy to the potential problem on overflow/underflow in pixel values after reverse IWT. To be truly reversible, additional information incurred by the histogram modification process is ingeniously embedded into the carrier image by using an improved DE method. A series of experiments is conducted to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach. As revealed in the experimental results, the proposed scheme outperforms existing approaches, in terms of embedding capacity and visual quality, as expected.

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  1. Institute of Information Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, People’s Republic of China

    Shaowei Weng, Yao Zhao & Rongrong Ni

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Jeng-Shyang Pan

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This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 90604032, 60776794, 60702013), Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education, Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, Specialized Research Foundation of BJTU, 973 program (No. 2006CB303104), Natural Science Foundation of Beijing (No. 4073038).

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Weng, S., Zhao, Y., Pan, JS. et al. Reversible Data Hiding Using the Companding Technique and Improved DE Method. Circuits Syst Signal Process 27, 229–245 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-008-9021-3

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