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These days a large number of people are suffering from heart diseases on the planet. Therefore in E-healthcare framework a large number of ECG signals as well as patient confidential information will be communicated via the Internet. Any modifications in the ECG signal may conduct a wrong diagnosis by the specialist, which can be deadly for patients. To ensure secure and safe communication in E-healthcare framework, proposed method presents an enhanced reversible data hiding algorithm based on prediction of most significant bit planes (MSB). Proposed method reserved room for embedding patient information before encryption, after data embedding stego signal is encrypted through combination of stream ciphers respectively. The experimental study has performed on MIT-BIH arrythmia database and proposed method achieved average embedding rate of 15.04 bits per sample, at receiver end precisely recover patient information (Bit Error Rate value is zero) with an average percentage residual difference of 0.0415 between the cover and reconstructed ECG signal successfully. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reversible data hiding in encrypted domain (RDH-ED) technology can embed data into cover media without exposing the original content to third parties. In addition, the recipient can recover the cover media losslessly after extracting the embedded data. Image-based RDH-ED has been widely studied, but RDH-ED based on 3D meshes has obtained few research results due to the complex data structure and irregular geometric structure of 3D meshes. With the widespread application of 3D meshes, the research on 3D meshes has attracted extensive research from researchers in recent years. In this paper, we propose a reversible data hiding for encrypted 3D meshes based on integer mapping and most significant bit (MSB) prediction. The content owner divides all vertices into "embedded" sets and "reference" sets and then maps floating-point coordinates to integers. After calculating the MSB prediction error of the "embedded" sets, the encryption technology is performed. Then, additional data can be embedded through the MSB replacement strategy. According to different permissions, legal recipients can obtain the original meshes, the additional data or both of them by using the proposed separable method. Higher embedding capacity is achieved by adopting MSB embedding strategy, and perfect recovery of the original meshes is achieved by using ring prediction scheme. The experimental results show that the proposed method has greater embedding capacity compared with the state-of-the-art method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the rise of non-volatile memory used in cloud service, it becomes urgent to reduce the write cost so as to improve the data manipulation capability. This paper proposed a high embedding efficiency reversible data hiding scheme for encrypted images (RDH-EI). It embeds data at the locations of most significant bit (MSB) using matrix encoding, resulting in a high embedding efficiency. In order to restore the image completely at the receiver side, a highly accurate MSB prediction based on orthogonal projection technique is preprocessed on the original image and the prediction result is self-embedded to help recover the image. The experimental results verify that the proposed scheme outperforms the previous related schemes, it can achieve a higher embedding capacity of 0.412 bits per pixel at average, moreover, a significantly higher embedding efficiency of 3.43 bits per change is obtained. That means the proposed scheme can reduce the write cost by minimizing the modification in the case of the same payload and is especially suitable for applications used the non-volatile memory. Meanwhile, the process of data extraction is error free and the image can be recovered completely.

Reversible data hiding in encrypted images (RDHEI) is an effective technique to embed data in the encrypted domain. An original image is encrypted with a secret key and during or after its transmission, it is possible to embed additional information in the encrypted image, without knowing the encryption key or the original content of the image. During the decoding process, the secret message can be extracted and the original image can be reconstructed. In the last few years, RDHEI has started to draw research interest. Indeed, with the development of cloud computing, data privacy has become a real issue. However, none of the existing methods allow us to hide a large amount of information in a reversible manner. In this paper, we propose a new reversible method based on MSB (most significant bit) prediction with a very high capacity. We present two approaches, these are: high capacity reversible data hiding approach with correction of prediction errors and high capacity reversible data hiding approach with embedded prediction errors. With this method, regardless of the approach used, our results are better than those obtained with current state of the art methods, both in terms of reconstructed image quality and embedding capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Prior to the publication of our article in 2018, to our knowledge, there were no methods of achieving a favourable trade-off between the payload in bits-per-pixel (bpp) and the quality of the reconstructed image in terms of PSNR or SSIM. Indeed, a high payload value would lead to a degradation of the reconstructed image’s quality. Moreover, it should also be noted that almost all of the other state-of-the-art methods at the time, were based on Least Significant Bit (LSB) substitution and made little use of the redundancy between pixels in the clear domain to realize the data embedding of a secret message. In our proposed work , we have taken the opposing view by developing a Most Significant Bits (MSB) prediction-based reversible data hiding in encrypted images (RDHEI) method. In the EPE-HCRDH approach, the original image is encrypted without modification and information about the location of all pixels which cannot be correctly predicted is embedded by MSB substitution. In order to localize the prediction errors, flags of consecutive bits equal to 1 are used. With this information, the data hider can detect all the bits which can be marked and substitute them with bits of a secret message. In this case, the payload is slightly lower than 1 bpp, but perfect reversibility is achieved. So, the proposed EPE-HCRDH approach provides a high payload with a little complexity. But as highlighted by Dragoi and Coltuc , the fact of using flags, so that the data hider can embed a secret message introduces security flaws in the method. Despite this, the method has attracted the attention of many researchers, with 100 citations (according to Google Scholar on November 9, 2020) in several peer-reviewed journals of excellent reputation (IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY , IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA –, IEEE ACCESS , IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, and IEEE TRANSACTION ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING. Today, we can say that high capacity RDHEI has become a hot topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• An improved prediction method is designed to predict the current pixel value. • The multi-MSBs substitution is applied to achieve high embedding capacity. • The original image can be reconstructed losslessly by utilizing MSB prediction. Reversible data hiding in encrypted images is an effective technique to embed information in encrypted domain, without knowing the original content of the image or the encryption key. In this paper, a high-capacity reversible data hiding scheme for encrypted images based on MSB (most significant bit) prediction is proposed. Since the prediction is not always accurate, it is necessary to identify the prediction error and store this information in the location map. The stream cipher is then used to encrypt the original image directly. During the data hiding phase, up to three MSBs of each available pixel in the encrypted image are substituted by the bits of the secret message. At the receiving end, the embedded data can be extracted without any errors and the original image can be perfectly reconstructed by utilizing MSB prediction. Experimental results show that the scheme can achieve higher embedding capacity than most related methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, a novel, real-time, error-free, reversible data hiding method for encrypted images has been proposed. Based on the (7, 4) Hamming code, we designed an efficient encoding scheme to embed secret data into the least significant bits (LSBs) of the encrypted image. For reversibility, we designed a most significant bit (MSB) prediction scheme that can recover a portion of the modified MSBs after the image is decrypted. These MSBs can be modified to accommodate the additional information that is used to recover the LSBs. After embedding the data, the original image can be recovered with no error and the secret data can be extracted from both the encrypted image and the decrypted image. The experimental results proved that compared with existing methods, the proposed method can achieve higher embedding rate, better quality of the marked image and less execution time of data embedding. Therefore, the proposed method is suitable for real-time applications in the cloud. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]