Visible watermark removal scheme based on reversible data hiding and image inpainting

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Highlights：

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• Two schemes for visible-watermark removal and reversible image recovery are proposed.

• Incomplete recovery is avoided by embedding the RLE-compressed difference image.

• Our general scheme with inpainting is applicable to any visible-watermark methods.

• Invalid users without knowing secret key cannot achieve reversible image recovery.

摘要

•Two schemes for visible-watermark removal and reversible image recovery are proposed.•Incomplete recovery is avoided by embedding the RLE-compressed difference image.•Our general scheme with inpainting is applicable to any visible-watermark methods.•Invalid users without knowing secret key cannot achieve reversible image recovery.

论文关键词：Visible watermarking,Watermark removal,Reversible recovery,Data compression,Inpainting

论文评审过程：Received 7 March 2017, Revised 26 June 2017, Accepted 9 October 2017, Available online 23 October 2017, Version of Record 28 October 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2017.10.003