The invention discloses a reversible
information hiding method and
system for enhancing image smoothness, and relates to the technical field of
information security, and the
system comprises a preprocessing module, an
information embedding module and an optimization
recovery module. According to the method, the
Sobel operator is utilized to calculate the
image gradient map, the region is divided based on the threshold T, the smooth region and the texture region can be accurately distinguished, an accurate basis is provided for differential
processing of different regions, region characteristics are fitted, large-size blocks and sub-blocks of the smooth region are divided to facilitate subsequent refinement
processing based on the gradient mean value, and the
processing efficiency is improved. The small-size blocks of the texture area are beneficial to operation aiming at texture features, the rationality and effectiveness of overall processing are improved, meanwhile, the pixel mean value in the large-size blocks of the smooth area is calculated, the pixel and mean value difference value is recorded, reversible low-pass filtering is carried out, and the reversibility of the image in the whole
information hiding and recovering process is ensured.