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Reversible image steganography attracts much attention of researchers since such technique has ability to reconstruct the original version of the host image losslessly after image steganography. In this paper, we propose a new reversible image steganography based on rhombus prediction and local complexity. To maintain good quality of stego images and to achieve high accuracy of tamper detection, the local complexity of each pixel is first evaluated, then, the prediction error is calculated by using rhombus prediction for embedding the authentication code. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed scheme has ability to recover the original version of the host images. In addition, the proposed scheme obtains better performance than previous schemes in terms of tamper detection and image quality.
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This research is funded by Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) under grant number 102.01-2016.06.
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Nguyen, TS., Chang, CC. & Shih, TH. Effective reversible image steganography based on rhombus prediction and local complexity. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 26449–26467 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-5869-9
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