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Real-time reversible data hiding with shifting block histogram of pixel differences in encrypted image

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Reversible data hiding in encrypted image (RDH-EI) is a hot topic of data hiding in recent years. Most RDH-EI algorithms do not reach desirable embedding rate and their computational costs are not suitable for real-time applications. Aiming at these problems, we propose an efficient RDH-EI algorithm with shifting block histogram of pixel differences in homomorphic encrypted domain. A key step of our RDH-EI algorithm is the block-based encryption scheme with additive homomorphism, which can preserve spatial correlation of plaintext image in homomorphic encrypted domain. In addition, our proposed technique of shifting block histogram can achieve efficient data embedding with high payload and correctly recover image. Extensive experiments are conducted to validate performance of our RDH-EI algorithm. Comparison results illustrate that our RDH-EI algorithm outperforms some state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of embedding rate, visual quality and computational time.

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Acknowledgements

This work is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61562007, 61762017, 61502111, 61763003, U1636101), the National Key Research Development Program of China (2016QY01W0200), the Guangxi Natural Science Foundation (2017GXNSFAA198222, 2016GXNSFAA380192), the Project of Guangxi Science and Technology (GuiKeAD17195062), Guangxi 1000-Plan of Training Middle-aged/Young Teachers in Higher Education Institutions, and the Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate Education (XYCSZ 2018076). The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees for their valuable comments and suggestions.

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    Zhenjun Tang, Shijie Xu, Jinyan Wang, Xianquan Zhang & Chuanqiang Yu

  2. Guangxi Collaborative Innovation Center of Multi-source Information Integration and Intelligent Processing, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004, People’s Republic of China

    Zhenjun Tang, Jinyan Wang & Xianquan Zhang

  3. School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, People’s Republic of China

    Dengpan Ye

  4. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Guangxi Normal University, No. 15 YuCai Road, Guilin, 541004, People’s Republic of China

    Zhenjun Tang

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Tang, Z., Xu, S., Ye, D. et al. Real-time reversible data hiding with shifting block histogram of pixel differences in encrypted image. J Real-Time Image Proc 16, 709–724 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-018-0838-0

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