A reversible data hiding scheme using inverse embedding methods in double-embedding strategies

Data hiding is a technology that communicates the secret data by the multimedia carrier, such like image, audio, and video files. A good data hiding scheme can hide huge secret data in the multimedia carrier without degrading the quality of the carrier. In this paper, a high hiding capacity reversible data hiding scheme with low distortion using double-embedding strategies is proposed. The proposed scheme uses the inverse embedding method in the second embedding strategy to increase the hiding capacity and decrease the distortion at the same time. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme has a very excellent performance in both hiding capacity and stego image quality.