Diophantine Equations for Enhanced Security in Watermarking Scheme for Image Authentication

Author(s):  
Padma T ◽  
Jayashree Nair

Hard mathematical problems having no polynomial time algorithms to determine a solution are seemly in design of secure cryptosystems. The proposed watermarking system used number theoretic concepts of the hard higher order Diophantine equations for image content authentication scheme with three major phases such as 1) Formation of Diophantine equation; 2) Generation and embedding of dual Watermarks; and 3) Image content authentication and verification of integrity. Quality of the watermarked images, robustness to compression and security are bench-marked with two peer schemes which used dual watermarks.

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayashree Nair ◽  
T. Padma

This paper describes an authentication scheme that uses Diophantine equations based generation of the secret locations to embed the authentication and recovery watermark in the DWT sub-bands. The security lies in the difficulty of finding a solution to the Diophantine equation. The scheme uses the content invariant features of the image as a self-authenticating watermark and a quantized down sampled approximation of the original image as a recovery watermark for visual authentication, both embedded securely using secret locations generated from solution of the Diophantine equations formed from the PQ sequences. The scheme is mildly robust to Jpeg compression and highly robust to Jpeg2000 compression. The scheme also ensures highly imperceptible watermarked images as the spatio –frequency properties of DWT are utilized to embed the dual watermarks.


2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (02) ◽  
pp. 1340002 ◽  
Author(s):  
DURGESH SINGH ◽  
SHIVENDRA SHIVANI ◽  
SUNEETA AGARWAL

This paper suggests an efficient fragile watermarking scheme for image content authentication along with altered region restoration capability. In this scheme, image is divided into nonoverlapping blocks of size 2 × 2 and for each block, eight bits for image content recovery data and four bits for authentication data from five most significant bits (MSBs) of each pixel, are generated. These 12 bits are embedded into the least significant bits (LSBs) of the pixels which are placed in its corresponding mapping block. At the receiver end by comparing the recalculated and extracted authentication data, the tampered blocks can easily be identified and using recovery data, one can easily restore the tampered block. Results of experiments demonstrate that the proposed scheme is effective enough for alteration detection as well as tamper recovery of the image.


2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (8) ◽  
pp. 5755-5772
Author(s):  
Jianjing Fu ◽  
Jiafa Mao ◽  
Dawen Xue ◽  
Deren Chen

2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (19) ◽  
pp. 1777-1790 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Cruz-Ramos ◽  
R. Reyes-Reyes ◽  
J. Mendoza-Noriega ◽  
Mariko Nakano-Miyatake ◽  
Hector Manuel Perez-Meana

Author(s):  
Krzysztof Stachowiak ◽  
Piotr Zwierzykowski

The multicast quality of service-enabled routing is a computationally challenging task. Despite ongoing research efforts, the associated mathematical problems are still considered to be NP-hard. In certain applications, computational complexity of finding the optimal connection between a set of network devices may be a particularly difficult challenge. For example, connecting a small group of participants of a teleconference is not much more complex than setting up a set of mutual point-to-point connections. On the other hand, satisfying the demand for such services as IPTV, with their receivers constituting the majority of the network, requires applying appropriate optimization methods in order to ensure real system execution. In this paper, algorithms solving this class of problems are considered. The notion of multicast saturation is introduced to measure the amount of multicast participants relative to the entire network, and the efficiency of the analyzed algorithms is evaluated for different saturation degrees.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (16) ◽  
pp. 5540
Author(s):  
Nayeem Hasan ◽  
Md Saiful Islam ◽  
Wenyu Chen ◽  
Muhammad Ashad Kabir ◽  
Saad Al-Ahmadi

This paper proposes an encryption-based image watermarking scheme using a combination of second-level discrete wavelet transform (2DWT) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) with an auto extraction feature. The 2DWT has been selected based on the analysis of the trade-off between imperceptibility of the watermark and embedding capacity at various levels of decomposition. DCT operation is applied to the selected area to gather the image coefficients into a single vector using a zig-zig operation. We have utilized the same random bit sequence as the watermark and seed for the embedding zone coefficient. The quality of the reconstructed image was measured according to bit correction rate, peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), and similarity index. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed scheme is highly robust under different types of image-processing attacks. Several image attacks, e.g., JPEG compression, filtering, noise addition, cropping, sharpening, and bit-plane removal, were examined on watermarked images, and the results of our proposed method outstripped existing methods, especially in terms of the bit correction ratio (100%), which is a measure of bit restoration. The results were also highly satisfactory in terms of the quality of the reconstructed image, which demonstrated high imperceptibility in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR ≥ 40 dB) and structural similarity (SSIM ≥ 0.9) under different image attacks.


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