Reversible data hiding based compressible privacy preserving system for color image

In digital era, privacy preservation and data size reduction are important issues and many applications handle them simultaneously. In this paper, authors introduce a novel application of reversible data hiding to protect privacy sensitive region in a color image while reducing its file size. The proposed work introduces entropy as a new performance criterion along with distortion, capacity for reversible data hiding. Evaluation metric of the proposed method is a file size of watermarked and losslessly compressed image. The proposed method preserves privacy and controls rise in image entropy by reversible data hiding.