Volume 11, Number 02, February 2021

Reversible Data Hiding based on Two-dimensional Histogram Shifting

  Authors

Juan Zhao¹ and Zhitang Li², ¹Wuhan Polytechnic University, China, ²Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

  Abstract

This paper presents a two-dimensional histogram shifting technique for reversible data hiding algorithm. In order to avoid the distortion drift caused by hiding data into stereo H.264 video, we choose arbitrary embeddable blocks from 4×4 quantized discrete cosine transform luminance blocks which will not affect their adjacent blocks. Two coefficients in each embeddable block are chosen as a hiding coefficient pair. The selected coefficient pairs are classified into different sets on the basis of their values. Data could be hidden according to the set which the value of the coefficient pair belongs to. When the value of one coefficient may be changed by adding or subtracting 1, two data bits could be hidden by using the proposed method, whereas only one data bit could be embedded by employing the conventional histogram shifting. Experiments show that this two-dimensional histogram shifting method can be used to improve the hiding performance.

  Keywords

Reversible data hiding, Two-dimensional histogram shifting, H.264, Multi-view coding.