A High Quality Reversible Data Hiding Method Using Interpolation Technique

Abstract

We propose a high quality and imperceptible reversible data hiding method in this paper. We divide the cover image into 5 by 5 blocks with non-overlapping boundaries, shrink them, and generate back to 5 by 5 blocks by interpolation technique. If the absolute value of the difference between the interpolation value and the original gray level is less than a threshold in the middle of the four 3 by 3 overlapping blocks of each 5 by 5 block. We may embed one bit of the secret data in this position. We apply PRNG to shuffle the hidden data before embedding. Simply follow the embedding steps to extract the embedded data where the location is embedded then shuffle back the order to find the hidden data. The experiment results demonstrate our method is quite imperceptible with high quality and can obtain the original cover image after extracting all hidden secret data.