Separable reversible data hiding

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Due to growth of multimedia application, security becomes an important issue of communication and storage of images.Encryption is one of the ways to ensure high securityImages are used in many fields such as medical science, military; they are stored or transfer through network, security of such image data is important.This work proposes a novel scheme for the security of such images by the method of separable reversible data hiding in encrypted images. In the first phase, a content owner encrypts the original uncompressed image using an encryption key. Then, a data-hider may compress the least significant bits of the encrypted imageusing a data-hiding key to create a sparse space to accommodate some additionaldata.With an encrypted image containing additional data, if a receiverhas the data-hiding key, he can extract the additional data thoughhe does not know the image content. If the receiver has the encryption key,he can decrypt the received data to obtain an image similar to the originalone, but cannot extract the additional data. If the receiver has both thedata-hiding key and the encryption key, he can extract the additional dataand recover the original content without any error by exploiting the spatialcorrelation in natural image when the amount of additional data is not toolarge.
Index Terms—Image encryption, image recovery, reversible data hiding.

Introduction –
Nowadays when more and more sensitive information is stored on computers and transmitted over the Internet, we need to ensure information security and safety. Image is also an important part of our information .Therefore it’s very important to protect our image from unauthorized access.Security of multimedia information is used to protect the multimedia content...

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...er having the data-hiding key cansuccessfully extract the embedded data, he cannot get any informationabout the original image content.
Consider the case that the receiver has the encryption key butdoes not know the data-hiding key. Clearly, he cannot obtain thevalues of parameters and cannot extract the embedded data. However,the original image content can be roughly recovered. Denoting thebits of pixels in the encrypted image containing embedded data B'i.j.0,B'i.j.1,.....,B'i.j.7(1 ≤i ≤ N1 and 1 ≤ j ≤ N2), the receivercan decrypt the received data

where ri.j.uare derived from the encryption key. The gray values of decrypted pixels are

Since the data-embedding operation does not alter any MSB of encrypted image, the decrypted MSB must be same as the original MSB.So, the content of decrypted image is similar to that of original image.if
Then there is

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