A reversible data hiding scheme for video robust against H.264/AVC compression

This paper proposes a lossless data hiding (LDH) scheme on uncompressed video data based on a multi-level histogram shifting mechanism in integer wavelet transform (IWT) domain. The proposed method enables the exact recovery of the original host signal upon extracting the embedded information, if the watermarked image is not affected by any other process. In the proposed scheme, the approximation subband image of the luminance component of a video frame is computed. Then, it is divided into non overlapping blocks. In each block, the differences between the neighboring elements are computed and a histogram is made on the difference values. The secret data are embedded into the blocks based on a multi-level shifting mechanism of the histogram. Experimental results show that proposed scheme can hide a large amount of information within a video frame with a high degree of robustness against H.264/AVC encoding.

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