Robust Reversible Data Hiding Algorithm for Color Image Based on 2D-DCT

Aiming at the problems such as the poor performance of anti-rotation attacks of reversible data hiding algorithm for color image, and the acerb contradictory between the amount of embedded data and the quality of image perception, a novel reversible data hiding (RDH) algorithm for color image based on two-dimensional discrete cosine transform (2D-DCT) was proposed in this paper. Firstly, for the separation of RGB color channel, the correlation among three color components of RGB and human visual system were used in the proposed algorithm. Secondly, the secret information were embedded into the region by a vector, it is embedded into the host image of low frequency regions using the 2D-DCT, which was not easy to suffer attacks. Finally, the embedded capacity was improved by the pixel complementary algorithm. While the receiver is extracting the secret information, the original cover image can be recovered by the 2D-DCT inverse transformation without any losses. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has good robustness and it also has a better ability of anti-rotation, anti-nose and anti-shear attacks, etc. Furthermore, the adaptive selection of embedded capacity has been achieved, when the capacity reached to 1.396 bpp, the average value of PSNR was still higher than 39.185 dB.

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