Abstract
To improve the embedding capacity of , a new RDH-EI scheme is proposed based on and most significant bit (MSB) prediction. First, according to the smoothness of the image, the image is partitioned into blocks based on , and then blocks of different sizes are encrypted and scrambled at the block level to resist the analysis of the encrypted images. In the data embedding stage, the adaptive MSB prediction method proposed by Wang and He (2022) is improved by taking the upper-left pixel in the block as the target pixel, to predict other pixels to free up more embedding space. To the best of our knowledge, quadtree partitioning is first applied to RDH-EI. Simulation results show that the proposed method is reversible and separable, and that its average embedding capacity is improved. For gray images with a size of 512×512, the average embedding capacity is increased by 25 565 bits. For all smooth images with improved embedding capacity, the average embedding capacity is increased by about 35 530 bits.
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