Novel Scheme of Reversible Watermarking With a Complementary Embedding Strategy

In this paper, a new scheme of reversible watermarking is proposed using a complementary embedding strategy in the spatial domain. The proposed scheme consists of two stages: horizontal direction embedding and vertical direction embedding. A complementary embedding strategy is designed to increase t...

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Main Author: Xiangguang Xiong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8844722/
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description In this paper, a new scheme of reversible watermarking is proposed using a complementary embedding strategy in the spatial domain. The proposed scheme consists of two stages: horizontal direction embedding and vertical direction embedding. A complementary embedding strategy is designed to increase the embedding capacity and decrease the distortion of the watermarked image in the vertical direction embedding. Specifically, in the horizontal direction, the proposed scheme embeds one secret data bit by increasing values of pixels in even rows and decreasing values of pixels in odd rows by one. In the vertical direction, it embeds another secret data bit by decreasing values of pixels in even rows and increasing values of pixels in odd rows by one. In addition, a histogram shrinkage technique is adopted to prevent overflow and underflow problems. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed reversible watermarking scheme outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of both embedding capacity and watermarked image quality.
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spelling doaj.art-d682cfae72c04c86b3526ecb950cbe4e2022-12-21T20:29:44ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362019-01-01713659213660310.1109/ACCESS.2019.29424498844722Novel Scheme of Reversible Watermarking With a Complementary Embedding StrategyXiangguang Xiong0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6604-9251School of Big Data and Computer Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, ChinaIn this paper, a new scheme of reversible watermarking is proposed using a complementary embedding strategy in the spatial domain. The proposed scheme consists of two stages: horizontal direction embedding and vertical direction embedding. A complementary embedding strategy is designed to increase the embedding capacity and decrease the distortion of the watermarked image in the vertical direction embedding. Specifically, in the horizontal direction, the proposed scheme embeds one secret data bit by increasing values of pixels in even rows and decreasing values of pixels in odd rows by one. In the vertical direction, it embeds another secret data bit by decreasing values of pixels in even rows and increasing values of pixels in odd rows by one. In addition, a histogram shrinkage technique is adopted to prevent overflow and underflow problems. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed reversible watermarking scheme outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of both embedding capacity and watermarked image quality.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8844722/Complementary embedding strategyprediction errorreversible watermarking
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Novel Scheme of Reversible Watermarking With a Complementary Embedding Strategy
IEEE Access
Complementary embedding strategy
prediction error
reversible watermarking
title Novel Scheme of Reversible Watermarking With a Complementary Embedding Strategy
title_full Novel Scheme of Reversible Watermarking With a Complementary Embedding Strategy
title_fullStr Novel Scheme of Reversible Watermarking With a Complementary Embedding Strategy
title_full_unstemmed Novel Scheme of Reversible Watermarking With a Complementary Embedding Strategy
title_short Novel Scheme of Reversible Watermarking With a Complementary Embedding Strategy
title_sort novel scheme of reversible watermarking with a complementary embedding strategy
topic Complementary embedding strategy
prediction error
reversible watermarking
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8844722/
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