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In 2010, Shiu et al. proposed three DNA-based reversible data hiding schemes with high embedding capacity. However, their schemes were not focused on DNA modification rate or the expansion problem. Therefore, we propose a novel reversible data hiding scheme based on histogram technique to solve the weaknesses of Shiu et al.’s schemes. The proposed scheme transforms the DNA sequence into a binary string and then combines several bits into a decimal integer. These decimal integers are used to generate a histogram. Afterwards, the proposed scheme uses a histogram technique to embed secret data. The experimental results show that the modification rate of our proposed scheme is 69 % lower than that of Shiu et al.’s schemes for the same embedding capacity. In addition, the length of the DNA sequence remains unchanged in the proposed scheme.
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Huang, YH., Chang, CC. & Wu, CY. A DNA-based data hiding technique with low modification rates. Multimed Tools Appl 70, 1439–1451 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-012-1176-z
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