Journal
NEUROCOMPUTING
Volume 79, Issue -, Pages 1-11Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2011.08.019
Keywords
Histogram rotation; Just noticeable distortion; Robust lossless data embedding
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Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2011CB707104]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61172143, 61072093, 61101250, 61172146, 60803150]
- Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China [2009JM8004, 2010JQ8026, 2011JM8008]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [K50511030005]
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It is well known that robust lossless data embedding (RLDE) methods can be used to protect copyright of digital images when the intactness of host images is highly demanded and the unintentional attacks may be encountered in data communication. However, the existing RLDE methods cannot be applied satisfactorily to the practical scenarios due to different drawbacks, e.g., serious salt-and-pepper noise, low capacity and unreliable reversibility. In this paper, we propose an effective solution to RLDE by improving the histogram rotation (HR)-based embedding model. The proposed method is a content-adaptive reliable RLDE or CAR for short. It eliminates the salt-and-pepper noise in HR by the pixel adjustment mechanism. Therefore, reliable regions for embedding can be well constructed. Furthermore, we basically expect the watermark strengths to be adaptive to different image contents, and thus we have a chance to make an effective tradeoff between invisibility and robustness. The luminance masking together with the threshold strategy is duly adopted in the proposed RLDE method, so the just noticeable distortion thresholds of different local regions can be well utilized to control the watermark strengths. Experimental evidence on 300 test images including natural, medical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed data embedding method. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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