Watermarking-based inpainting under data transmition environment

This study proposes a novel image inpainting technique based on watermarking and halftoning. This technique use LSB method to embed error diffusion halftone image into original image for protecting the image. In image repair process, we use LSB method to extract the halftone information, and the reference image is achieved from LUT inverse halftone. Finally we use the reference image to finish the image inpainting work. Experiment shows the performance of our method is very excellent in image inpainting.