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Hybrid secret hiding schemes based on absolute moment block truncation coding

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This paper presents two secret hiding schemes based on absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC). One is for embedding secrets into complex blocks and the other one is for smooth blocks. As for the smooth blocks, the small variation of the block is adopted to define the embedding rule to minimize the distortion after data embedding. As for the complex blocks, the large variation of the block is used to embed more secrets while maintaining good visual quality. In the experiments, when compared to Ou and Sun’s scheme, the positive data is to confirm the higher capacity while preserving better visual quality.

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Acknowledgments

Many thanks for the support by Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan under Grant number MOST 104-2221-E-468-005. Our gratitude also goes to Michael Burton, Asia University.

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  1. Aeronautical Research Laboratory, National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Taichung, 407, Taiwan

    Ying-Hsuan Huang

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Conventry, CV4 7AL, UK

    Ching-Chun Chang

  3. Department of M-Commerce and Multimedia Applications, Asia University, Taichung, 413, Taiwan

    Yi-Hui Chen

  4. Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, 404, Taiwan

    Yi-Hui Chen

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Huang, YH., Chang, CC. & Chen, YH. Hybrid secret hiding schemes based on absolute moment block truncation coding. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 6159–6174 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-3208-y

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