Security analysis and improvement on a double-random phase-encoding technique based information hiding method

The security of an information hiding method using the double-random phase-encoding technique is analyzed and improved. The method encodes the hidden image with the double-random phase-encoding technique, and then embeds the real and imaginary parts of the encoded image to an enlarged host image. Recovering the hidden image from the composed image does not need the original host image, while the quality of the reconstructed image is satisfying. However, the original method is insecure in the sense of information hiding, since the composed image can be detected easily with some technical metrics. The security is improved by adding random perturbation on the encoded data. The validity of the improved method is demonstrated by numerical simulation experiments.