An efficient reversible authentication scheme for demosaiced images with improved detectability

Autor: Xiaoyu Zhou, Tung-Shou Chen, Wien Hong, Chun-Hung Hsieh
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Signal Processing: Image Communication. 80:115666
ISSN: 0923-5965
DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2019.115666
Popis: The existing probability based reversible authentication schemes for demosaiced images embed authentication codes into rebuilt components of image pixels. The original demosaiced image can be totally recovered if the marked image is unaltered. Although these schemes offer the goal of pixel-wise tamper detection, the generated authentication codes are irrelevant to the image pixels, causing some undetectable intentional alterations. The proposed method pre-processes the rebuilt components of demosaiced images and hashes them to generate authentication codes. With the guide of a randomly-generated reference table, authentication codes are embedded into the rebuilt components of demosaiced images. Since the distortions of image pixels are sensitive to the embedded authentication codes, the proposed method further alters the pre-processed pixels to generate a set of authentication codes. One of the authentication codes that minimizes the distortion is embedded to generate marked demosaiced images. The results show that the proposed method offers a better image quality than prior state-of-the-art works, and is capable of detecting a variety of tampering.
Databáze: OpenAIRE