Reversible data hiding based on multiple histograms modification and deep neural networks

Abstract

In the previous multiple histograms modification (MHM) based reversible data hiding (RDH) method, the prediction-error histograms are generated by a fixed manner, which may constrain the performance owing to the lack of adaptivity. In order to compensate this, we propose a deep neural networks (DNN) based method for dynamical multiple histograms generation. Through learning the prior knowledge, DNN is able to establish the histograms with different sizes for a better redundancy exploitation. For each histogram, two optimal expansion bins will be determined to minimize the distortion caused by the modification. Besides, the strategy consisted of the memo technique and the entropy measurement are applied to accelerate the parameter optimization. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms some of state-of-the-art RDH methods.