Title: A data-hiding scheme based on one-way hash function

Authors: Chin-Chen Chang, Chia-Yin Lee, Chang-Chu Chen, Zhi-Hui Wang

Addresses: Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, 100 Wenhwa Rd., Xitun Dist., Taichung 40724, Taiwan; Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, 168 University Rd., Minxiong, Chiayi 62102, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, 168 University Rd., Minxiong, Chiayi 62102, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, 168 University Rd., Minxiong, Chiayi 62102, Taiwan; Department of Management Information System, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 666 Buzih Rd., Beitun Dist., Taichung 40601, Taiwan. ' School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, 2 Linggong Rd., Ganjingzi Dist., Dalian, Liaoning Province 11624, China

Abstract: Data hiding in digital images is a useful technique to embed secret information into a host image. In this article, we employ the one-way hash function to present a new data-hiding scheme in the VQ-compressed domain. In order to extend the hiding capacity for the proposed scheme, we use the concept of SMVQ to increase the embeddable indices of the VQ-index table. Moreover, our experiments show that proposed method has a larger hiding capacity than other related works.

Keywords: vector quantisation; one-way hash function; multimedia security; data hiding; digital images; security; privacy; multimedia.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIS.2010.037542

International Journal of Multimedia Intelligence and Security, 2010 Vol.1 No.3, pp.285 - 297

Published online: 15 Dec 2010 *

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