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The embedding capacity and the image quality of a stego image are two important factors to evaluate a data hiding method. The aim is to get the largest embedding capacity with the lowest image distortion. In this paper, a novel mixed data hiding (MDH) method is proposed. MDH combines the non-reversible technique LSB substitution and the reversible technique chessboard prediction to get the benefits out of these two techniques. Experimental results showed that the proposed method achieved significantly higher payload (about 4 times higher) while maintaining low image distortion. Furthermore, comparisons results with other existing methods showed that MDH has significant advantage.
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Wu, K., Zhu, Z., Chen, TS., Chen, J. (2011). A New Data Hiding Method Combining LSB Substitution and Chessboard Prediction. In: Zhu, M. (eds) Electrical Engineering and Control. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 98. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21765-4_96
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