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A difference expansion based reversible information hiding scheme with high stego image visual quality

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Reversible data hiding can embed secret data into the cover image to cheat hackers, thereby avoiding the interception attack. The previous methods modify non-embeddable pixels to create hiding spaces, which decreases the quality of the stego image. In order to improve the image quality, we keep the non-embeddable pixels and use a few flag bits to discriminate between the embedded pixels and the non-embeddable pixels. Experimental results showed that the proposed method can achieve better image quality than the reversible steganographic methods that proposed recently.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung, 40724, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Chin-Chen Chang

  2. Aeronautical Research Laboratory, National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Taichung, 407, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Ying-Hsuan Huang

  3. Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, 41349, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Tzu-Chuen Lu

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Chang, CC., Huang, YH. & Lu, TC. A difference expansion based reversible information hiding scheme with high stego image visual quality. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 12659–12681 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3689-3

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