Stereo Image Reversible Watermarking for Authentication

To authenticate stereo image, this paper proposes a stereo image reversible watermarking method for three dimensional television systems. The proposed method can recover the original stereo image without any distortion if stereo image is not tampered. Otherwise, it can authenticate stereo image with the capability of locating tamper. Difference expansion is used to embed authentication bits reversibly into each block for locating tamper. Pixel pairs without resulting in overflow/underflow after expansion are chosen as candidates of embedding locations. In order to avoid transmit big size of embedding location map, the same embedding locations for each block are decided in advance, which adaptively determines the block size. Moreover, in order to resist collage attack, authentication bits generated from each block embedded into its mapping blocks, so that authentication of each block is not independent. Experimental results demonstrate that stereo image can be totally recovered if watermarked stereo image is not modified. Moreover, it proves suitability and stability of the proposed method for tamper location with relationships of stereo images. [GRAPHICS]