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Reversible data hiding in encrypted AMBTC images

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Signal processing in the encrypted domain has attracted a lot of attention due to the requirement for content security and privacy protection. Reversible data hiding in encrypted images (RDH-EI) is also a hot topic. However, the majority of the published techniques are designed for uncompressed images rather than JPEG-, VQ- and BTC-compressed images. In this paper, for the first time, a RDH-EI method for AMBTC images is proposed. In the proposed method, the higher mean and lower mean of a triple in an AMBTC-compressed image are encrypted by using stream cipher at first. Then, additional data can be embedded into the redundant space by using prediction error histogram modification technique. Experimental results and analysis demonstrate that, with the marked cipher-image, legal receivers are able to extract embedded data exactly by using a data hiding key, decrypt it to recover an image very similar to the original one by using an image encryption key, or extract additional data and recover the original image error free with both keys. The proposed method is applicable to real-time transmission due to the simple implementation of the algorithm and low computational complexity.

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Acknowledgements

This research work is partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61502009, 61525203, 61472235, U1636206), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2016 M591650), “Shu Guang” project supported by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation, Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (1508085SQF216), Key Program for Excellent Young Talents in Colleges and Universities of Anhui Province (gxyqZD2016011) and Undergraduates Training Foundation of Anhui University (J10118511269).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing & Signal Processing, Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, People’s Republic of China

    Zhaoxia Yin, Xuejing Niu, Jin Tang & Bin Luo

  2. School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, People’s Republic of China

    Zhaoxia Yin & Xinpeng Zhang

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Yin, Z., Niu, X., Zhang, X. et al. Reversible data hiding in encrypted AMBTC images. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 18067–18083 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4957-6

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