The location map used in reversible watermarking has two disadvantages.Firstly
the size of the compressed location map is large.Secondly
compression of location map consumes lots of computation.A reversible watermarking scheme of high payload is proposed without location map.The host image is divided into blocks
the smooth degree of each block is computed
which is unchanged after data embedding
according to the smooth degree all blocks are sorted
noised blocks are filtered
watermark is embedded into the selected blocks with the general difference expansion.The experimental results show the proposed method can conceal more information than other methods at the same PNSR.