A Higher Efficient Reversible Data Hiding Scheme Based on Pixel Value Ordering

In recent years, the reversible data hiding (RDH) scheme based on pixelvalue-ordering and prediction-error expansion proposed by Li et al has become a hot research topic for its high-fidelity. In this scheme, the difference between the second maximum and second minimum value is used to measure the complexity of each pixel block, and the flat block which complexity is less than a predefined threshold T is prior used to embed secret data. The pixel block selection strategy is easy, but it is not always effective. The embedding efficiency is not high when a small amount of secret information is embedded. In this paper, a higher efficient reversible data hiding scheme based on pixel value ordering is proposed. In this work, instead of the difference between the second maximum and second minimum value of a block, the standard deviation is used to measure the complexity. The proposed scheme could adaptively adjust the threshold according to the embedded capacity for higher embedding efficiency. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme has higher embedding efficiency and better image quality compared with Li et al.s.

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