Data Hiding in Halftone Images using Error Diffusion Halftoning with Adaptive Thresholding

@inproceedings{citeulike:1379702, abstract = {Halftoning is the process of representing a gray-level image with a binary image. Data hiding is the technique of embedding data in an image without affecting its perceptual quality. DHSED is a watermarking algorithm to embed hidden binary visual patterns in two error diffused halftone images such that the hidden patterns can be visually inspected when the images are overlaid. A drawback of the DHSED method is that if the image has large areas of the same grey-level, hiding data causes some edge effects which may reveal the hidden data. In this paper we propose an improvement to the DHSED which fairly reduces the edge effects}, author = {Attar, Ahmad M. and Taheri, Omid and Sadri, Saeed and Fattahi, Rasoul A. }, citeulike-article-id = {1379702}, journal = {Electrical and Computer Engineering, Canadian Conference on}, keywords = {diffusion, halftone, watermarking}, pages = {2029--2032}, posted-at = {2007-06-12 05:37:38}, priority = {0}, title = {Data Hiding in Halftone Images using Error Diffusion Halftoning with Adaptive Thresholding}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs\_all.jsp?arnumber=4054837}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1379702 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1379702 TI - Data Hiding in Halftone Images using Error Diffusion Halftoning with Adaptive Thresholding JF - Electrical and Computer Engineering, Canadian Conference on SP - 2029 EP - 2032 N2 - Halftoning is the process of representing a gray-level image with a binary image. Data hiding is the technique of embedding data in an image without affecting its perceptual quality. DHSED is a watermarking algorithm to embed hidden binary visual patterns in two error diffused halftone images such that the hidden patterns can be visually inspected when the images are overlaid. A drawback of the DHSED method is that if the image has large areas of the same grey-level, hiding data causes some edge effects which may reveal the hidden data. In this paper we propose an improvement to the DHSED which fairly reduces the edge effects KW - diffusion KW - halftone KW - watermarking AU - Attar, Ahmad AU - Taheri, Omid AU - Sadri, Saeed AU - Fattahi, Rasoul PY - 2006/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4054837 ER -