Reversible Data Hiding for 3D Mesh Model Based on Block Modulus Encryption and Multi-MSB Prediction

Zihao Fu, Yang Gao, Wanli Lyu

Abstract: Reversible data hiding in encrypted domain (RDH-ED) fortifies data security and privacy safeguards while upholding the original data’s integrity and accessibility. Current research on RDH-ED focuses on 2D images, while research on 3D mesh models is still immature. This paper introduces an RDH-ED method using block modulus encryption and multi-MSB prediction. Initially, the original mesh model is partitioned into non-overlapping subblocks of equal size, and then the vertices in each subblock are encrypted with the same key for additive modulus encryption, ensuring that the spatial correlation present in the original mesh subblocks remains preserved within the encrypted subblocks. Subsequently, the subblocks are disrupted one by one using the 3D Arnold Transform to enhance security. The vertices in each embeddable subblock are divided into a reference vertex and several embeddable vertices, where the multi-MSB prediction strategy is employed to allocate embedding room for each embeddable vertex. Finally, the secret information is embedded into the allocated room. Since the proposed method almost completely preserves the spatial correlation within each subblock, the achieved embedding rate surpasses that of all previous outstanding methods that rely on vacating room after encryption (VRAE). The experimental findings demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves an average embedding rate of 45.55 bits per vertex (bpv), surpassing the state-of-the-art method that achieves 25.63 bpv.

External IDs:dblp:conf/icycsee/FuGL24