Lossless Information Hiding in Images

Lossless information hiding is a technique that enables images to be authenticated and then restored to their original forms by removing the watermark and replacing the images which had been overwritten. Lossless Information Hiding in Images focuses on the lossless information hiding in our most popular media, images. In this book, lossless information hiding schemes for images are classified into three categories, i.e., spatial domain based, transform domain based and compressed domain based. Furthermore, the compressed domain based methods are classified into VQ based, BTC based and JPEG/JPEG2000 based. And thus, the classification of lossless hiding schemes covers all kinds of methods. This book introduces many status-of-the-art lossless hiding schemes, most of which come from the authors' publications in the past five years. After reading this book, readers can immediately grasp the status, the typical algorithms and the trend of the field of lossless information hiding.Focuses specially on lossless information hiding for imagesCovers the most common visual medium, images, and the most common compression schemes, JPEG and JPEG 2000Includes recent state-of-the-art techniques in the field of lossless image watermarkingPresents many status-of-the-art lossless hiding schemes, most of which come from the authors' publications in the past five years