A lossless image compression method with the reversible data embedding capacity

The current reversible data embedding techniques can be divided into 2 categories: those developed by the untreated original images and those developed by the images treated via the lossy compression as the reversible target. So far, there has not been any literature discussing the issue of the reversible data embedding action finished during the lossless still image compression. Our method employs Chuang and Lin's simplified lossless image compression method to develop a reversible data embedding technique. Our method successfully embeds the secret data in the lossless image compression codes and have the secret data reversed to the original image as the secret data are retrieved wherefrom. According to the experimental results, the proposed method performs well on the embedding capacity and compression effects.