A Reversible Information Hiding Method for Binary Image Based on Image Enlargement Strategy

Abstract

The present invention relates to the fields of digital forensics and information security, and more specifically, relates to a binary image reversible information hiding method based on an image enlargement strategy, which can restore the original image losslessly after information extraction. Use the cross-shaped pattern block to enlarge the original image to achieve the purpose of reversible information hiding. By analyzing and classifying 32 kinds of cross-shaped pattern blocks, and selecting the appropriate pattern block as the reference pattern block, a reference image with better visual quality can be obtained. ; After determining the reference pattern block, analyze the type of cross-shaped pattern block centered on each pixel in the original image, and use the designed enlargement strategy to enlarge each pixel into a 2×2 block to obtain the reference image; Finally, a selection strategy of flippable pixels in a block is adopted to flip the pixels to embed information. The invention can be used in information security, especially in the transmission of binary image secret information.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the fields of digital forensics and information security, and more specifically relates to a binary image reversible information hiding method based on an image enlargement strategy. Background technique [0002] With the popularization of the Internet and the rapid development of communication and computer technology, information dissemination channels have become more and more extensive, and information confidentiality has become very important. The sending and receiving parties hope to exchange information secretly. For the consideration of information confidentiality and security, various information hiding technologies have been proposed to transmit information. Most of these technologies use multimedia carriers, such as audio, video, images, etc. as carriers, and then embed Secret information, disseminated on public channels. Compared with audio, video, etc., images are used more frequently and spread faster, so they are...

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Problems solved by technology

The above methods are usually irreversible. The existing reversible methods are mainly run-based reversible information hiding methods. This type of method is to embed data by finding a pair of histogram pairs. The method is simple and easy to implement, but the embedding capacity is not high. , there is also a method based on pattern replacement to improve the embedding capacity, but more auxiliary information needs to be recorded, and the position coordinates of all PF patterns in the boundary image need to be recorded

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