Title
Handling uneven embedding capacity in binary images: a revisit
Abstract
Hiding data in binary images can facilitate the authentication and annotation of important document images in digital domain. A representative approach is to first identify pixels whose binary color can be flipped without introducing noticeable artifacts, and then embed one bit in each non-overlapping block by adjusting the flippable pixel values to obtain the desired block parity. The distribution of these flippable pixels is highly uneven across the image, which is handled by random shuffling in the literature. In this paper, we revisit the problem of data embedding for binary images and investigate the incorporation of a most recent steganography framework known as the wetpaper coding to improve the embedding capacity. The wet paper codes naturally handle the uneven embedding capacity through randomized projections. In contrast to the previous approach, where only a small portion of the flippable pixels are actually utilized in the embedding, the wet paper codes allow for a high utilization of pixels that have high flippability score for embedding, thus giving a significantly improved embedding capacity than the previous approach. The performance of the proposed technique is demonstrated on several representative images. We also analyze the perceptual impact and capacity-robustness relation of the new approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1117/12.587379
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
data hiding,binary image,wet-paper codes,uneven embedding capacity
Steganography,Computer vision,Embedding,Information protection policy,Information hiding,Binary image,Digital image,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Mathematics,Binary number
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5681
0277-786X
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.66
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Min Wu12703190.18
Jessica Fridrich28014592.05
Miroslav Goljan32430221.88
Hongmei Gou423220.21