Youqing Wu

Wenjing Ma, Youqing Wu, Zhaoxia Yin

With the popularization of digital information technology, the reversible data hiding in encrypted images (RDHEI) has gradually become the research hotspot of privacy protection in cloud storage. As a technology which can embed additional information in encrypted domain, extract the embedded information correctly and recover the original image without loss, RDHEI has been widely paid attention by researchers. To embed sufficient additional information in the encrypted image, a high-capacity RDHEI method using adaptive encoding is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the occurrence frequency of different prediction errors of the original image is calculated and the corresponding adaptive Huffman coding is generated. Then, the original image is encrypted with stream cipher and the encrypted pixels are marked with different Huffman codewords according to the prediction errors. Finally, additional information is embedded in the reserved room of marked pixels by bit substitution. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can extract the embedded information correctly and recover the original image losslessly. Compared with similar algorithms, the proposed algorithm makes full use of the characteristics of the image itself and greatly improves the embedding rate of the image. On UCID, BOSSBase, and BOWS-2 datasets, the average embedding rate of the proposed algorithm reaches 3.162 bpp, 3.917 bpp, and 3.775 bpp, which is higher than the state-of-the-art algorithm of 0.263 bpp, 0.292 bpp, and 0.280 bpp, respectively.

Youqing Wu, Wenjing Ma, Yinyin Peng et al.

As a technology that can prevent the information from being disclosed, the reversible data hiding in encrypted images (RDHEI) acts as an important role in privacy protection and information security. To make use of the image redundancy and further improve the embedding performance, a high-capacity RDHEI method based on bit-plane compression of prediction error is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the whole prediction error is calculated and divided into blocks of the same size. Then, the content owner rearranges the bit-plane of prediction error by block and compresses the bitstream with the joint encoding algorithm to reserve room. Finally, the image is encrypted and the information can be embedded into the reserved room. On the receiver side, the information extraction and the image recovery are performed separably. Experimental results show that the proposed method brings higher embedding capacity than state-of-the-art RDHEI works.

Youqing Wu, Youzhi Xiang, Yutang Guo et al.

This work proposes an improved reversible data hiding scheme in encrypted images using parametric binary tree labeling(IPBTL-RDHEI), which takes advantage of the spatial correlation in the entire original image but not in small image blocks to reserve room for hiding data. Then the original image is encrypted with an encryption key and the parametric binary tree is used to label encrypted pixels into two different categories. Finally, one of the two categories of encrypted pixels can embed secret information by bit replacement. According to the experimental results, compared with several state-of-the-art methods, the proposed IPBTL-RDHEI method achieves higher embedding rate and outperforms the competitors. Due to the reversibility of IPBTL-RDHEI, the original plaintext image and the secret information can be restored and extracted losslessly and separately.