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Separable reversible data hiding and encryption for HEVC video

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A separable reversible data hiding and encryption for high efficiency video coding (HEVC) video is proposed in this paper. In the encoding phase, one can encrypt the signs and amplitudes of motion vector differences and the signs of residual coefficients with an encryption key by using RC4, while another can hide data into nonzero AC residual coefficients with a hiding key. For the decoding phase, one can decrypt the HEVC video and obtain a HEVC video similar to the original one if he only has the encryption key; he can extract the hiding data, but he does not know the HEVC video content if he only has the hiding key; he can extract the hiding data and recover the original HEVC video if he has both the encryption key and hiding key. Experimental results and analysis show that the proposed scheme can obtain a good security performance and keep the HEVC video stream format compliant.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61370225, 61572182), project supported by Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 2015JJ2007), supported by the Scientific Research Plan of Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Department of China (2014FJ4161), supported by the Scientific Research Plan of Changsha Science and Technology Department (k1403027-11).

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  1. College of Computer and Communication Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Min Long

  2. Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Processing of Big Data on Transportation, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, 410114, Hunan, China

    Min Long

  3. College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Fei Peng & Han-yun Li

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Long, M., Peng, F. & Li, Hy. Separable reversible data hiding and encryption for HEVC video. J Real-Time Image Proc 14, 171–182 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-017-0727-y

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