This paper presents a novel singular value decomposition (SVD)- and vector
quantization (VQ)-based image hiding scheme to hide image data. Plugging th
e VQ technique into the SVD-based compression method, the proposed scheme l
eads to good compression ratio and satisfactory image quality. Experimental
results show that the embedding image is visually indistinguishable from t
he stego-image. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.