Unified data hiding and scrambling method for JPEG images

  • Zhaoxia Yin
  • , Youzhi Xiang
  • , Zhenxing Qian
  • , Xinpeng Zhang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel method of unified data hiding and JPEG scrambling. This differs from the traditional image encryption algorithms in that, we propose to construct a privacy-preserved JPEG image during the data hiding procedure. That is while the scrambling operation masks the JPEG image content by the secret key, the additional messages is also represented by the sequence of the shuffled RLE (Run Length Encoding) pairs. Therefore, images uploaded to the cloud server unable to reveal the original content. Meanwhile, the owner can use the embedded messages for fragile watermarking, JPEG labeling and image management. The proposed method is reversible. After downloading a copy from the cloud, an authorized user can extract the hidden message and recover the original JPEG losslessly and simultaneously. Experimental results show that the proposed method provides a large embedding payload and has a good capability for preserving privacy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Multimedia Information Processing – PCM 2018 - 19th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, 2018, Proceedings
EditorsChong-Wah Ngo, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Richang Hong, Meng Wang, Wen-Huang Cheng
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages373-383
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783030007638
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event19th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2018 - Hefei, China
Duration: 21 Sep 201822 Sep 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11166 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHefei
Period21/09/1822/09/18

Keywords

  • JPEG
  • Preserving privacy
  • RLE
  • Reversible

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