A fast and efficient method to protect color images

M. Chaumont; W. Puech

doi:10.1117/12.702741

29 January 2007 A fast and efficient method to protect color images

M. Chaumont, W. Puech

Proceedings Volume 6508, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2007; 65081T (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.702741
Event: Electronic Imaging 2007, 2007, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method to embed the color information of an image in a corresponding grey-level image. The objective of this work is to allow free access to the grey-level image and give color image access only if you own a secret key. This method is made of three major steps which are a fast color quantization, an optimized ordering and an adapted data hiding. The principle is to build an index image which is, in the same time, a semantically intelligible grey-level image. In order to obtain this particular index image, which should be robust to data hiding, a layer running algorithm is proceeded to sort the K colors of the palette. The major contributions of this paper are the fast color quantization, the optimized layer running algorithm, the color palette compression and the adapted data hiding.

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M. Chaumont and W. Puech "A fast and efficient method to protect color images", Proc. SPIE 6508, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2007, 65081T (29 January 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.702741

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