Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2016, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (5): 605-615.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2016.05.013

• Special Issue: Information Security of Multimedia Contents • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Improved PVO-k Algorithm for Reversible Data Hiding

YAN Bing1, BAI Sen1,2, YANG Yi1, JI Xiao-yong1   

  1. 1. Department of Information Engineering, Chongqing Communication Institute, Chongqing 400035, China;
    2. School of Software, Chongqing Institute of Engineering, Chongqing 400035, China
  • Received:2016-08-02 Revised:2016-08-18 Online:2016-09-30 Published:2016-09-30

Abstract:

In recent years, a number of reversible hiding information (RDH) algorithms based on pixel-value-ordering (PVO) and some revised versions have appeared. This paper proposed an improved RDH method to overcome drawbacks in the PVO-k algorithm. The proposed improvement is more suitable for the information embedded into flat blocks due to the improved embedding rules. High fidelity of the stego-image is guaranteed by using the improved pixel-block-selection. Experimental results show that the proposed method has better performance in terms of embedding capacity and image fidelity as compared with PVO-k, especially for relatively smooth images.

Key words: pixel-block-selection, reversible data hiding, pixel-value-ordering (PVO)

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