Abstract
Data hiding can embed secret data into various multimedia to avoid hackers’ doubt and attacks. Recently, methods of embedding data into decompressed images have been proposed because they are very suitable for military communications. In this paper, we propose an improved strategy to enhance the hiding capacity of the previous AMBTC-based hiding methods that cannot embed secret data into the smooth block. In addition, the developers did not investigate the problems related to the overflow or underflow of pixels. Consequently, we also proposed an effective strategy to avoid overflow and underflow problems with no needs need to record extra data. With the advantages, the proposed method can achieve high embedding capability.
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Yang, LJ., Pai, FP., Huang, YH., Tseng, CY. (2022). High Capacity Data Hiding for AMBTC Decompressed Images Using Pixel Modification and Difference Expansion. In: Arai, K. (eds) Intelligent Systems and Applications. IntelliSys 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 295. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82196-8_29
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