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Reversible Image Watermarking with Differential Histogram Shifting and Error Prediction Compensation  

Yeo, Dong-Gyu (국립금오공과대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
Lee, Hae-Yeoun (국립금오공과대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
Kim, Byeong-Man (국립금오공과대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
Kim, Kyung-Su (KT 네트워크연구소)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.37, no.6, 2010 , pp. 417-429 More about this Journal
Abstract
Reversible watermarking inserts watermark into digital media in such a way that visual transparency is preserved and then enables to restore the original media from the marked one without any loss of media quality. This watermarking can be applied to quality-sensitive imaging such as medical imaging, military imaging, remote-sensing imaging, and precious artwork, where the original media should be preserved during image processing and analysis. In this paper, a reversible image watermarking technique that embeds message bits by modifying the differential histogram of adjacent pixels is presented. In order to satisfy both high embedding capacity and visual quality, the proposed technique exploits the fact that adjacent pixels in the image have highly spatial correlation. Also, we prevent overflow/underflow problem and salt-and-pepper artifacts by employing a predicted error compensation scheme. Through experiments using various test images, we prove that the presented technique provides perfect reversibility and high embedding capacity, while maintaining the induced-distortion low.
Keywords
Reversible watermarking; Differential histogram; Histogram shifting; Predicted error compensation;
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