The invention discloses a reversible
information hiding method based on block prediction and difference value
histogram translation. The invention belongs to the field of
digital watermarking and
information hiding. The reversible
information hiding method comprises the following steps: firstly, dividing an image into 4 * 4 image blocks; then, conducting three neighborhood partitioning, wherein every four pixels form one group, selecting one pixel and three pixels on the periphery of the pixel, generating prediction values by using the three pixels on the periphery, comparing the prediction values with the selected pixels so as to generate difference values, enabling the difference values to be subjected to downward
rounding, generating four difference values in one image block, and then generating a difference value
histogram. According to the reversible information hiding method, the embedding capacity of the
watermark is improved, and the
algorithm steps are simplified on the premise of keeping the visual effect of the image, and the
watermark can be embedded and extracted only by partitioning. According to the reversible information hiding method, reversible watermarking can beachieved, and watermarking
invisibility is good, and the experiment is simple and easy to implement, and the PSNR of the image with the embedded watermarking is high, and the image visual effect is good, and the practical value is achieved.