TY - GEN
T1 - On the Robustness of “Robust Reversible Data Hiding Scheme Based on Two-Layer Embedding Strategy”
AU - Yin, Wen
AU - Yin, Zhaoxia
AU - Zhang, Xinpeng
AU - Luo, Bin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In the paper “Robust reversible data hiding scheme based on two-layer embedding strategy” published in INS recently, Kumar et al. proposed a robust reversible data hiding (RRDH) scheme based on two-layer embedding. Secret data was embedded into the most significant bit-planes to increase robustness, and a sorting strategy based on local complexity was adopted to reduce distortion. However, Kumar’s reversible data hiding (RDH) scheme is not as robust against joint photographic experts group (JPEG) compression as stated and can not be called RRDH. This comment first gives a brief description of their RDH scheme, then analyzes their scheme’s robustness from the perspective of JPEG compression principles. JPEG compression will change pixel values, thereby destroying auxiliary information and pixel value ordering required to extract secret data correctly, making their scheme not robust. Finally, the changes in both bit-plane and pixel value ordering after JPEG compression are shown and analyzed by different robustness-testing experiments.
AB - In the paper “Robust reversible data hiding scheme based on two-layer embedding strategy” published in INS recently, Kumar et al. proposed a robust reversible data hiding (RRDH) scheme based on two-layer embedding. Secret data was embedded into the most significant bit-planes to increase robustness, and a sorting strategy based on local complexity was adopted to reduce distortion. However, Kumar’s reversible data hiding (RDH) scheme is not as robust against joint photographic experts group (JPEG) compression as stated and can not be called RRDH. This comment first gives a brief description of their RDH scheme, then analyzes their scheme’s robustness from the perspective of JPEG compression principles. JPEG compression will change pixel values, thereby destroying auxiliary information and pixel value ordering required to extract secret data correctly, making their scheme not robust. Finally, the changes in both bit-plane and pixel value ordering after JPEG compression are shown and analyzed by different robustness-testing experiments.
KW - Least significant bit
KW - Prediction error expansion
KW - Reversible data hiding
KW - Robustness
KW - Steganography
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85151064554
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-99-0856-1_38
DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-0856-1_38
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85151064554
SN - 9789819908554
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 512
EP - 524
BT - Digital Multimedia Communications - The 9th International Forum, IFTC 2022, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Zhai, Guangtao
A2 - Zhou, Jun
A2 - Yang, Hua
A2 - Yang, Xiaokang
A2 - Wang, Jia
A2 - An, Ping
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 9th International Forum on Digital Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2022
Y2 - 9 December 2022 through 9 December 2022
ER -