Very Fast Watermarking by Reversible Contrast Mapping

By Dinu Coltuc, Jean-Marc Chassery. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2007

403 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Reversible contrast mapping (RCM) is a simple integer transform that applies to pairs of pixels. For some pairs of pixels, RCM is invertible, even if the least significant bits (LSBs) of the transformed pixels are lost. The data space occupied by the LSBs is suitable for data hiding. The embedded information bit-rates of the proposed spatial domain reversible watermarking scheme are close to the highest bit-rates reported so far. The scheme does not need additional data compression, and, in terms of mathematical complexity, it appears to be the lowest complexity one proposed up to now. A very fast lookup table implementation is proposed. Robustness against cropping can be ensured as well

Subfields: Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Citations in the corpus

• General Framework to Histogram-Shifting-Based Reversible Data Hiding (2013, background): “2246179 difference expansion (DE) [8]–[10], histogram shifting (HS) [11]–[13], and integer transform [14]–[17], etc.”
• DE-Based Reversible Data Hiding With Improved Overflow Location Map (2009, background): “[12] proposed a reversible contrast mapping (RCM) -based embedding method.”
• Reversible data hiding: Advances in the past two decades (2016, methodology): “In [28], Coltuc and Chassery proposed a method based on the so-called reversible contrast mapping which is an IT of integer pair.”
• A Novel Reversible Data Hiding Scheme Based on Two-Dimensional Difference-Histogram Modification (2013, background): “ence expansion [12]–[15], histogram modification [16]–[19], prediction-error expansion [20]–[25], and integer transform [26]–[30], etc.”