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An effective compressed image authentication scheme based on N-variant AMBTC

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Image authentication is one technique that provides integrity protection for digital images, making them sensitive to any slight modification. Recently, the detectability of absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC) compressed images has been attracting more attention due to its integrity authentication concerns. Thus, this paper proposes an effective N-variant AMBTC based image authentication scheme for AMBTC compressed images. First, a novel AMBTC compression code is derived using a variant AMBTC technique that can provide a better quality of compressed images. Then, each AMBTC compression code is further eliminated into a version requiring fewer bits using the proposed N-variant AMBTC technique, and those vacated N-bits are used to conceal authentication codes, which is generated by hashing the AMBTC compression code and location information. Experimental results confirm that the proposed scheme has superior stability and accuracy in tampering detection while providing better visual quality of the watermarked image.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by the National of Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, under MOST 110-2410-H-167-004, in party by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62272103, and in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province under Grant Nos. 2020J01300, 2022J01971, 2022J01974 and 2022J01975.

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    Guo-Dong Su

  2. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, 100 Wenhwa Road, Seatwen, Taichung, 40724, Taiwan

    Guo-Dong Su & Chin-Chen Chang

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung, 41170, Taiwan

    Chia-Chen Lin

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Su, GD., Chang, CC. & Lin, CC. An effective compressed image authentication scheme based on N-variant AMBTC. Multimed Tools Appl 83, 3801–3829 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-15486-8

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