Reversible data hiding based on wavelet spread spectrum

Abstract

This paper presents a reversible data hiding method based on wavelet spread spectrum and histogram modification. Using the spread spectrum scheme, we embed data in the coefficients of integer wavelet transform in high frequency subbands. The pseudo bits are also embedded so that the decoder does not need to know which coefficients have been selected for data embedding, thus enhancing data hiding efficiency. Histogram modification is used to prevent the underflow and overflow. Experimental results on some frequently used images show that our method has achieved superior performance in terms of high data embedding capacity and high visual quality of marked images, compared with the existing reversible data hiding schemes.