Reversible Data Hiding using Histogram Shifting

Author

Sai Saketh Nandagiri

Graduation Semester and Year

2016

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

Department

Electrical Engineering

First Advisor

Kamisetty R Rao

Abstract

With the current state-of-the-art technology, intruders can easily gain access to sensitive information. To avoid this, different methods with improved security to hide information have been developed like, covert channels, hiding data in images, null ciphers, etc. The focus of this work is to enhance the security and data hiding capacity of the current state-of-the-art reversible data hiding algorithms. The proposed data hiding method is designed such that the original image is losslessly restored after extraction of a payload. The proposed framework allows embedding of a binary bit stream into the host or cover image while retaining the quality of the image. The payload can be extracted at the receiver without any additional information (peak and zero values) about the stego image in which data is hidden. Experimental results indicate that the reversible data hiding scheme outperforms other approaches in the literature in terms of security and marked image quality.

Keywords

Data hiding, Steganography, Watermarking

Disciplines

Electrical and Computer Engineering | Engineering

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

Comments

Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington

Recommended Citation

Nandagiri, Sai Saketh, "Reversible Data Hiding using Histogram Shifting" (2016). Electrical Engineering Theses. 349.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/electricaleng_theses/349