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High capacity reversible and secured data hiding in images using interpolation and difference expansion technique

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Data hiding is a noteworthy research topic in digital technology for years. Reversible data hiding (RDH) technique plays a vital role for confirming security of the digital transmissions. A new 2-layer secure, high capacity reversible data hiding technique has been proposed, using the concept of interpolation based data hiding and difference expansion method. Unlike, state-of-the art interpolation based RDH techniques, the security has been enhanced in the proposed technique by concealing the data into the image pixels in non-sequential manner. This technique offers high-capacity data hiding, by considering the maximum difference between neighboring pixels without compromising on quality of the images. It can embed up to 3.19 bpp in Baboon image which is better than the other existing state-of-the art interpolation based RDH (IRDH) techniques. The proposed technique is sustainable against the series of tests provided by standard StirMark Benchmark 4.0 analysis. It withstands the steganalysis attacks, viz., StegExpose as a measure of security.

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Mandal, P.C., Mukherjee, I. & Chatterji, B.N. High capacity reversible and secured data hiding in images using interpolation and difference expansion technique. Multimed Tools Appl 80, 3623–3644 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-09341-3

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