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Reversible self-verifying and self-recovering technique for color image demosaicking

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This paper develops an integrity protection technique based on image demosaicking. To provide the reversible property, the rebuilt components in color pixels are used for secret data embedding. The random value and the hashed result of the most significant high-order bits of the color components are employed to generate the authentication code for each rebuilt component. In addition, the optimal single bit map block truncation coding (OSBMBTC) technique is adopted for generating recovery codes. A block-based image recovery procedure is designed to reconstruct the modified areas. Experimental results reveal that the illegally tampered objects in the test images can be found in these tests even when 87.5% pixels are modified. From the results, the image quality of the recovery image is acceptable when 50% of pixels are modified. Moreover, the demosaicked image can be reversibly constructed when the embedded image is not tampered.

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This research was partially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C. under contracts 106-2410-H-126-006-MY2 and 108-2410-H-020-MY2.

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  1. Graduate Institute of Automation Technology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, 106344, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Yu-Hsiu Lin

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Management, Providence University, 200, Sec. 7, Taiwan Boulevard, Shalu Dist, Taichung City, 43301, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Yu-Chen Hu & Wu-Lin Chen

  3. School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Biswaranjan Acharya

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Lin, YH., Hu, YC., Chen, WL. et al. Reversible self-verifying and self-recovering technique for color image demosaicking. Multimed Tools Appl 80, 24949–24968 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-10914-z

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