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An integer wavelet transform based scheme for reversible data hiding in encrypted images

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In this paper, a novel reversible data hiding (RDH) scheme for encrypted digital images using integer wavelet transform, histogram shifting and orthogonal decomposition is presented. This scheme takes advantage of the Laplacian-like distribution of integer wavelet high-frequency coefficients in high frequency sub-bands and the independence of orthogonal coefficients to facilitate data hiding operation in encrypted domain, and to keep the reversibility. Experimental results has demonstrated that this scheme outperforms all of other existing RDH schemes in encrypted domain in terms of higher PSNR at the same amount of payload. Compared with the state-of-the-arts, the proposed scheme can be applied to all natural images with higher embedding rate.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 41371402, 61672294, the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) under Grant 2011CB302204, the Startup Foundation for Introducing Talent of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology under Grant 2016r055 and the Priority Academic Program Development (PAPD) of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions. Funding was provided by Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No. 20110141110056)

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  1. School of Computer and Software, the Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring, and the Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

    Lizhi Xiong

  2. State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Geospatial Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Zhengquan Xu

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA

    Yun-Qing Shi

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Xiong, L., Xu, Z. & Shi, YQ. An integer wavelet transform based scheme for reversible data hiding in encrypted images. Multidim Syst Sign Process 29, 1191–1202 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11045-017-0497-5

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