Pairwise prediction-error expansion for efficient reversible data hiding

IEEE Trans Image Process. 2013 Dec;22(12):5010-21. doi: 10.1109/TIP.2013.2281422.

Abstract

In prediction-error expansion (PEE) based reversible data hiding, better exploiting image redundancy usually leads to a superior performance. However, the correlations among prediction-errors are not considered and utilized in current PEE based methods. Specifically, in PEE, the prediction-errors are modified individually in data embedding. In this paper, to better exploit these correlations, instead of utilizing prediction-errors individually, we propose to consider every two adjacent prediction-errors jointly to generate a sequence consisting of prediction-error pairs. Then, based on the sequence and the resulting 2D prediction-error histogram, a more efficient embedding strategy, namely, pairwise PEE, can be designed to achieve an improved performance. The superiority of our method is verified through extensive experiments.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't