Defending Multimedia Content Embedded in Online Social Networks (OSNs) Using Digital Watermarking

2020 ◽  
pp. 90-113
Author(s):  
Brij B. Gupta ◽  
Somya Rajan Sahoo ◽  
Prashant Chugh ◽  
Vijay Iota ◽  
Anupam Shukla
Keyword(s):  
Digital Watermarking ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Multimedia Content ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
Text Documents ◽  
Bit Plane ◽  
Embedded Process ◽  
The Web

In global internet usage, increasing multimedia message, which includes video, audio, images, and text documents, on the web raised a lot of consequences related to copyright. For copyright protection, authentication purpose and forgery detection digital watermarking is the robust way in social network content protection. In this technique, the privacy information is embedded inside the multimedia content like image and video. The protected content embedded inside multimedia content is called watermark-enabled information. To make more effective the process of watermarking, the content encrypted before embedding to the image. Basically, the digital watermarking embedded process implemented in two different domains called spatial and frequency domain. In spatial domain digital watermarking, the watermark information is embedded in the least significant bit of the original image on the basis of bit plane selected and on the basis of the pixels of image, embedding, and detection is performed.

scholarly journals A Hybrid Digital Watermarking Approach Using Wavelets and LSB

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 2483 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Ashok Kumar ◽  
C. Dharmaraj ◽  
Ch. Srinivasa Rao
Keyword(s):  
Digital Watermarking ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Discrete Wavelet ◽  
Watermark Image ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
N Level ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Authentication Security ◽  
Wavelet Image

The present paper proposed a novel approach called Wavelet based Least Significant Bit Watermarking (WLSBWM) for high authentication, security and copyright protection. Alphabet Pattern (AP) approach is used to generate shuffled image in the first stage and Pell’s Cat Map (PCM) is used for providing more security and strong protection from attacks. PCM applied on each 5×5 sub images. A wavelet concept is used to reduce the dimensionality of the image until it equals to the size of the watermark image. Discrete Cosign Transform is applied in the first stage; later N level Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is applied for reducing up to the size of the watermark image. The water mark image is inserted in LH<sub>n</sub> Sub band of the wavelet image using LSB concept. Simulation results show that the proposed technique produces better PSNR and similarity measure. The experimental results indicate that the present approach is more reliable and secure efficient.The robustness of the proposed scheme is evaluated against various image-processing attacks.

scholarly journals Bit Plane Slicing Based Digital Watermarking Technique in Dwt Domain

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 525-529
Keyword(s):  
Copyright Protection ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Hybrid Technique ◽  
Singular Matrix ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
Host Image ◽  
Bit Plane ◽  
Bit Planes ◽  
Bit Plane Slicing

Authenticity of image and its copyright protection are one of the essential application of watermarking. In this paper, a hybrid technique for watermarking in DWT domain is presented for its application in the field of providing authentication to images. In this work binary image is used as watermark and is embedded in the 'host image'. Before embedding the watermark in the host, the host image is splitted into 8 bit planes using bit plane slicing. Followed that DWT is applied to the least significant bit plane which partitions the respective plane into low frequency (LL subband) and high frequency (HH, HL and LH subbands). The SVD is applied to HH subband of least significant bit plane and watermark is embedded on the singular matrix part of SVD. To analyse the robustness of the scheme proposed in this paper, watermarked image is attacked by different image processing attacks. Original watermark and extracted watermark is compared on the scale of normalized correlation to measure the robustness of the scheme against various attacks.

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Information Hiding Techniques for Copyright Protection of Text Documents

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milad Taleby Ahvanooey ◽  
Qianmu Li ◽  
Hiuk Jae Shim ◽  
Yanyan Huang
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Watermarking ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Information Hiding ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Text Documents ◽  
Plain Text ◽  
Proof Of Ownership ◽  
Text Steganography

With the ceaseless usage of web and other online services, it has turned out that copying, sharing, and transmitting digital media over the Internet are amazingly simple. Since the text is one of the main available data sources and most widely used digital media on the Internet, the significant part of websites, books, articles, daily papers, and so on is just the plain text. Therefore, copyrights protection of plain texts is still a remaining issue that must be improved in order to provide proof of ownership and obtain the desired accuracy. During the last decade, digital watermarking and steganography techniques have been used as alternatives to prevent tampering, distortion, and media forgery and also to protect both copyright and authentication. This paper presents a comparative analysis of information hiding techniques, especially on those ones which are focused on modifying the structure and content of digital texts. Herein, various text watermarking and text steganography techniques characteristics are highlighted along with their applications. In addition, various types of attacks are described and their effects are analyzed in order to highlight the advantages and weaknesses of current techniques. Finally, some guidelines and directions are suggested for future works.

scholarly journals Blind Image Watermarking in Canonical and Cepstrum Domains Based on 4-Connected t-o’clock Scrambling

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 266
Author(s):  
Farhana Shirin Chowdhury ◽  
Pranab Kumar Dhar ◽  
Kaushik Deb ◽  
Takeshi Koshiba
Keyword(s):  
Digital Watermarking ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Image Watermarking ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Multimedia Content ◽  
Watermark Image ◽  
Tree Property ◽  
Multimedia Contents ◽  
Blind Image

Copyright protection of multimedia content is confronted with great challenges such as easy access to the Internet. Digital watermarking is widely applicable technique for copyright protection of multimedia contents. In this paper, a blind symmetric watermarking method in canonical and cepstrum domains based on four-connected t-o’clock scrambling is proposed. Initially, the watermark image is scrambled using the four-connected t-o’clock method to enhance the security. Then, the rotation operation is applied to the host image to extract the region where the watermark bits are embedded. After that, discrete linear canonical transform (DLCT) is applied to the extracted region to obtain the DLCT region. Cepstrum transform (CT) is performed on DLCT region to attain CT region. The CT region is then divided into non-overlapping blocks. The watermark bits are inserted into each block using max-heap and min-heap tree property. Experimental results illustrate that the proposed method shows high robustness against numerous attacks. Moreover, it produces high quality watermarked images and provides high security. Furthermore, it has superior performance to recent methods in terms of imperceptibility, robustness, and security.

On the Necessity of Finding Content Before Watermark Retrieval

2011 ◽  
pp. 106-119
Author(s):  
Martin Steinebach ◽  
Patrick Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Digital Watermarking ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
The Internet ◽  
P2p Networks ◽  
Active Mechanism ◽  
Search Mechanism ◽  
The Web

Digital watermarking promises to be a mechanism for copyright protection without being a technology for copy prevention. This sometimes makes it hard to convince content owners to use digital watermarking for protecting their content. It is only a passive technology adding information into the content to be protected. Therefore some active mechanism is required that completes the protection. This needs to be a search mechanism that localises potentially watermarked media on the Internet. Only then the passive information embedded in the content can help to fight illegal copies. We discuss strategies and approaches for retrieving watermarks from the Internet with the help of a media search framework. While various Internet domains like HTML pages (the Web), eBay, or FTP are discussed, the focus of this work is on content shared within peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

Security Method for Multimedia Content by Using Watermarking

2014 ◽  
Vol 626 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
R. Kavitha ◽  
B. Arivuselvam ◽  
G. Anand
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Mode Decomposition ◽  
Digital Watermarking ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Additive Noise ◽  
Video Watermarking ◽  
Multimedia Content ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Data Embedding ◽  
Mode Decomposition ◽  
Embedding Rate

Digital watermarking is a technique developed to help copyright protection of Image, audio & video files. It has been spurred by the growth of the Internet, and the ease of copying. This has led to an unprecedented numbers in copyright infringements. The digital audio & video watermarking is concerned with embedding data in a signal the watermark data can be accurately detected. Watermarking algorithm based on Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) is introduced. The signal is divided into frames and each one is decomposed adaptively by Empirical Mode Decomposition into intrinsic oscillatory components. The data embedding rate of EMD algorithm is 46.9-50.3 b/s; the robustness of hidden watermark is identified using Mp3 compression, additive noise, and quantization, cropping, filtering and resampling.

scholarly journals Blockchain-Based Multimedia Content Protection: Review and Open Challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Amna Qureshi ◽  
David Megías Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Digital Rights Management ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Multimedia Content ◽  
Content Protection ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Protection Systems ◽  
Multimedia Content Protection

In this paper, we provide a holistic survey of multimedia content protection applications in which blockchain technology is being used. A taxonomy is developed to classify these applications with reference to the technical aspects of blockchain technology, content protection techniques, namely, encryption, digital rights management, digital watermarking and fingerprinting (or transaction tracking), and performance criteria. The study of the literature reveals that there is currently no complete and systematic taxonomy dedicated to blockchain-based copyright protection applications. Moreover, the number of successfully developed blockchain-based content protection systems is very low. This points towards a research gap. To fill this gap, we propose a taxonomy that integrates technical aspects and application knowledge and can guide the researchers towards the development of blockchain-based multimedia copyright protection systems. Furthermore, the paper discusses some technical challenges and outlines future research directions.

A DCT-Domain System for Digital Watermarking

2013 ◽  
Vol 321-324 ◽  
pp. 2609-2612
Author(s):  
Yan Liang ◽  
Gao Yan ◽  
Chun Xia Qi
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Digital Watermarking ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Random Sequence ◽  
Multimedia Data ◽  
Dct Domain ◽  
Digital Document ◽  
Dct Coefficients ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
Signal Processing Techniques

Digital watermarking has been proposed as a solution to the problem of copyright protection of multimedia data in a networked environment. It makes possible to tightly associated to a digital document a code allowing the identification of the data creator, owner, authorized consumer, and so on. In this paper a new DCT-domain system for digital watermarking algorithm for digital images is presented: the method, which operates in the frequency domain, embeds a pseudo-random sequence of scrambled image in a selected set of DCT coefficients. After embedding, the watermark is adapted to the image by exploiting the masking characteristics of the human visual system, thus ensuring the watermark invisibility. By exploiting the statistical properties of the embedded sequence, the mark can be reliably extracted without resorting to the original uncorrupted image. Experimental results demonstrate that the watermark is robust to several signal processing techniques, including JPEG compression, cut, fuzzy, addition of noise, and sharpen.

Digital Watermarking for 3D Polygonal Model Based on Wavelet Transform

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroaki Date ◽  
Satoshi Kanai ◽  
Takeshi Kishinami
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Digital Watermarking ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Affine Transformation ◽  
Wavelet Coefficient ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Geometric Error ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Cad Cam ◽  
Polygonal Model

Abstract Recently, much interest is being taken in a method to protect the copyright of digital data and prevent illegal duplication of it. However, in the area of CAD/CAM and CG, there are no effective ways to protect the copyright of the 3D geometric models. As a first step to solve this problem, a new digital watermarking method for 3D polygonal models is introduced in this paper. Watermarking is one of the copyright protection methods where an invisible watermark is secretly embedded into the original data. The proposed watermarking method is based on the wavelet transform (WT) and multi-resolution representation (MRR) of the polygonal model. The watermark can be embedded in the large wavelet coefficient vectors at various resolution levels of the MRR. This makes the embedded watermark imperceptible and invariant to the affine transformation, and also makes the control of the geometric error caused by the watermarking reliable.

Dual-wrapped digital watermarking scheme for image copyright protection

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming-Chiang Hu ◽  
Der-Chyuan Lou ◽  
Ming-Chang Chang
Keyword(s):  
Digital Watermarking ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Watermarking Scheme
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