Ownership Protection for Progressive Transmission of Color Images with Reversible Data Hiding

Progressive transmission of multimedia can be commonly encountered in multimedia communications. In this paper, we develop the reversible data hiding scheme for ownership protection of color images, which is suitable to meet the characteristics of progressive transmission. With progressive transmission, data can be partitioned into base and enhancement layers. We consider carefully altering the difference values between base and enhancement layers in each color plane of progressively transmitted images, and utilize the correlations between different color planes for making reversible data hiding possible. Simulation results with our scheme demonstrate the effectiveness for practical implementations with color images, and hence the ownership protection of progressively transmitted media can be retained, and original color image can be recovered.