Title
A simple image encoding method with data lossless information hiding
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a simple reversible data hiding method in the spatial domain for block truncation coding (BTC) compressed grayscale images. The BTC method compresses a block of a grayscale image to a bitmap and a pair of quantization numbers. The proposed method first embeds secret bits into a block by changing the order of those two quantization numbers. The compression rate is not enlarged by this embedding scheme. To further improve the hiding capacity, the proposed method embeds the secret bits into the bitmap of the block by exploiting the correlation characteristic of neighboring blocks' bitmap in natural images. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves very good hiding capacity at low compression rate.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.4304/jnw.6.3.400-407
Journal of Networks
Keywords
DocType
Volume
embeds secret bit,quantization number,compression rate,btc method,good hiding capacity,data lossless information hiding,simple image,block truncation coding,hiding capacity,neighboring block,grayscale image,information hiding
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
null
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhi-Hui Wang110616.54
Chin Chen Chang27849725.95
Mingchu Li346978.10
Tzu-Chuen Lu437433.17