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A Reversible Watermarking Scheme Based on Adaptive Block Sized Integer Transform

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Artificial Intelligence and Security (ICAIS 2020)

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As the foundation of reversible watermarking technology, the integer transform technique, e.g. difference expansion (DE), has been widely studied. However, most integer transform schemes use the blocks of uniform size for embedding, resulting in that the embedding performance is not as good as the recently proposed histogram-shifting method. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a reversible watermarking scheme based on adaptive block sized integer transform. After predicting the texture complexity of different regions in the cover image, more watermarks are embedded in smooth regions by using larger sized blocks as the embedding units; in textured regions, the relatively smaller sized blocks are used as the embedding units, which decreases the amount of watermarks to reduce the distortion caused by embedding. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm provides less image distortion compared with some existing reversible watermarking algorithms with the same embedded capacity (EC).

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This work was supported by the Key Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 2017ZDXM-GY-014).

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  2. Shanxi Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Security Computing, **dian University, **’an, 710071, Shanxi, China

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Li, Q., Wang, X., Pei, Q. (2020). A Reversible Watermarking Scheme Based on Adaptive Block Sized Integer Transform. In: Sun, X., Wang, J., Bertino, E. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Security. ICAIS 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1254. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8101-4_20

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