Qun Mo1, Heng Yao1, Fang Cao2, Zheng Chang3, Chuan Qin1,*
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.59, No.1, pp. 119-133, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05770
Abstract Recently, reversible data hiding in encrypted image (RDHEI) has attracted extensive attention, which can be used in secure cloud computing and privacy protection effectively. In this paper, a novel RDHEI scheme based on block classification and permutation is proposed. Content owner first divides original image into non-overlapping blocks and then set a threshold to classify these blocks into smooth and non-smooth blocks respectively. After block classification, content owner utilizes a specific encryption method, including stream cipher encryption and block permutation to protect image content securely. For the encrypted image, data hider embeds additional secret information… More >