scholarly journals Imperceptible and Secure Blind Image Watermarking using Spread Spectrum Scheme with Adaptive Embedding Strength

Watermarking is the way toward concealing advanced mystery data in a picture. The best in class watermark implanting plans with the assistance of spread range and quantization, experiences Host Signal Interference (HSI) and scaling assaults, separately. They fixed the inserting parameter, which is hard to consider both power and subtlety for all pictures. This paper takes care of the issues by proposing a visually impaired watermarking strategy, Spread Spectrum Scheme with Adaptive Embedding Strength (SSAES). Their adaptiveness originates from the proposed Adaptive Embedding Strategy (AEP), which expands the installing quality or quantization limit by ensuring the Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) of the host picture.SSAES includes free of HSI by calculating in the earlier information about HSI. We present a thought called mistake limit to hypothetically dissect the exhibition of our proposed techniques in detail. Further, to improve the security of the watermarked picture, the DCT coefficients are exposed to stage based encryption. This will improve the security of a watermarked picture. The test results reliably exhibit that SSAES outflank the best in class strategies regarding intangibility, power, computational expense, and flexibility. Along these lines the proposed course of action of picture watermarking routs the drawbacks of host signal impedance security ambushes and scaling attack.

Author(s):  
Roland Kwitt ◽  
Peter Meerwald ◽  
Andreas Uhl

In this paper, the authors adapt two blind detector structures for additive spread-spectrum image watermarking to the host signal characteristics of the Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT) domain coefficients. The research is motivated by the superior perceptual characteristics of the DT-CWT and its active use in watermarking. To improve the numerous existing watermarking schemes in which the host signal is modeled by a Gaussian distribution, the authors show that the Generalized Gaussian nature of Dual-Tree detail subband statistics can be exploited for better detector performance. This paper finds that the Rao detector is more practical than the likelihood-ratio test for their detection problem. The authors experimentally investigate the robustness of the proposed detectors under JPEG and JPEG2000 attacks and assess the perceptual quality of the watermarked images. The results demonstrate that their alterations allow significantly better blind watermark detection performance in the DT-CWT domain than the widely used linear-correlation detector. As only the detection side has to be modified, the proposed methods can be easily adopted in existing DT-CWT watermarking schemes.


Digital image watermarking is powerful technique which provide ownership protection and copyright protection. In this paper, a novel watermarking technique based on Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is presented. YCbCr color model is used for watermark embedding and extraction because of its close resemblance to human visual system. Single level DWT is applied to Luma Component of YCbCr color cover image and then DCT coefficients are taken for watermark embedding process. DCT is applied block by block of size . Binary watermark is scrambled using Arnold transform with k iterations to achieve robustness. Proposed method has been evaluated by many performance evaluation measures such as Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Normalized Correlation (NC) and Computational time. Various watermark attacks are also applied against proposed method, result shows that superiority over other methods.


2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Kwitt ◽  
Peter Meerwald ◽  
Andreas Uhl

In this paper, the authors adapt two blind detector structures for additive spread-spectrum image watermarking to the host signal characteristics of the Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT) domain coefficients. The research is motivated by the superior perceptual characteristics of the DT-CWT and its active use in watermarking. To improve the numerous existing watermarking schemes in which the host signal is modeled by a Gaussian distribution, the authors show that the Generalized Gaussian nature of Dual-Tree detail subband statistics can be exploited for better detector performance. This paper finds that the Rao detector is more practical than the likelihood-ratio test for their detection problem. The authors experimentally investigate the robustness of the proposed detectors under JPEG and JPEG2000 attacks and assess the perceptual quality of the watermarked images. The results demonstrate that their alterations allow significantly better blind watermark detection performance in the DT-CWT domain than the widely used linear-correlation detector. As only the detection side has to be modified, the proposed methods can be easily adopted in existing DT-CWT watermarking schemes.


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