Separable reversible data hiding and encryption for HEVC video

Abstract

A separable reversible data hiding and encryption for high efficiency video coding (HEVC) video is proposed in this paper. In the encoding phase, one can encrypt the signs and amplitudes of motion vector differences and the signs of residual coefficients with an encryption key by using RC4, while another can hide data into nonzero AC residual coefficients with a hiding key. For the decoding phase, one can decrypt the HEVC video and obtain a HEVC video similar to the original one if he only has the encryption key; he can extract the hiding data, but he does not know the HEVC video content if he only has the hiding key; he can extract the hiding data and recover the original HEVC video if he has both the encryption key and hiding key. Experimental results and analysis show that the proposed scheme can obtain a good security performance and keep the HEVC video stream format compliant.