Mean value based reversible data hiding in encrypted images

Abstract A novel reversible data hiding technique for encrypted images is proposed in this paper. Proposed technique utilizes additive modulo 256 for encryption purpose and a property of mean for embedding watermark in the encrypted image. Preserved mean values are used for watermark extraction and image recovery. In contrast to several state of art reversible data hiding techniques for encrypted images, proposed technique provides complete reversibility in terms of bit by bit recovery of original image after decryption and watermark extraction. Proposed technique is computationally very simple and executes in very less computational time. Experimental results, on various standard grayscale test images, and comparison with recently proposed existing techniques exhibit the superiority of the proposed technique in terms of security, reversibility, privacy protection and computational efficiency.

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