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A robust without intra-frame distortion drift data hiding algorithm based on H.264/AVC

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This paper presents an improved robust data hiding algorithm based on BCH syndrome code (BCH code) technique and without distortion drift technique. The BCH code technique, which can correct the error bits caused by network transmission, packet loss, video-processing operations, various attacks, etc., encodes the embedded data by using BCH code before data hiding. The without distortion drift technique in this paper is that we exploit several paired-coefficients of a 4 × 4 discrete cosine transform (DCT) block to accumulate the embedding induced distortion, and the directions of intra-frame prediction are utilized to avert the distortion drift. It is proved analytically and shown experimentally that the new data hiding algorithm can get more robustness, effectively avert intra-frame distortion drift and get high visual quality.

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Abbreviations

AVC:

Advanced video coding

DCT:

Discrete cosine transform

BCH:

BCH syndrome code

ICT:

Integer discrete cosine transform

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Acknowledgment

The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their insightful comments and helpful suggestions.

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61272407 and by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) under Grant No. 2007AA01Z420.

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  1. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Yunxia Liu, Zhitang Li, Xiaojing Ma & Jian Liu

  2. Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, China

    Yunxia Liu

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Liu, Y., Li, Z., Ma, X. et al. A robust without intra-frame distortion drift data hiding algorithm based on H.264/AVC. Multimed Tools Appl 72, 613–636 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-013-1393-0

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