International Journal of Advanced Information and Communication Technology


Separable Data hiding in Images by Reserving Room before Encryption

T.A. Muhammed Shafeek, S. Nagaraj, Maharaja Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India.

DOI : 01.0401/ijaict.2014.02.13

International Journal of Advanced Information and Communication Technology

Received On : January 08, 2015

Revised On : February 20, 2015

Accepted On : March 125, 2015

Published On : April 05, 2015

Volume 02, Issue 04

Pages : 245-249

Abstract


Recently more and more attention is paid to reversible data hiding (RDH) in encrypted images, since it maintains the excellent property that the original cover can be lossless recovered after embedded data is extracted while protecting the image content’s confidentiality. All previous methods embed data by reversibly vacating room from the encrypted images, which may be subject to some errors on data extract ion and/or image restoration. In this paper, we propose a novel method by reserving room before encryption with a traditional RDH algorithm, and thus it is easy for the data hider to reversibly embed data in the encrypted image. The proposed method can achieve real reversibility, that is, data extraction and image recovery are free of any error.

Keywords


RDH, Prediction Error Expansion, Lossless Recovery

Cite this article


T.A. Muhammed Shafeek, S. Nagaraj, “Separable Data hiding in Images by Reserving Room before Encryption” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, pp.245-249, April 05, 2015.

Copyright


© 2015 T.A. Muhammed Shafeek, S. Nagaraj. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.