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Since Tian Jun proposed the difference expansion embedding technique, based on which, many reversible watermarking techniques were proposed. However, these methods do not perform well when the payload is high. In this paper, we proposed an expandable difference threshold controlled scheme for these three methods. Experiments show that our scheme improves the performance of these three methods for heavy payload.
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Foundation item: the National High Technology Research and Development Program (863) of China (No. 2007AA02Z452) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 30570511 and 30770589)
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Jiang, Lj., Guo, Xt., Yang, H. et al. Threshold controlled scheme of difference expansion techniques for reversible watermarking. J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci.) 15, 541–548 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12204-010-1046-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12204-010-1046-7
Key words
- difference expansion embedding technique
- reversible watermarking
- visual quality
- difference threshold controlled scheme