A Non-Blind Image Watermarking Method for Copyright Protection

   في هذا البحث ، تم تقديم طريقة العلامة المائية غير العمياء لحماية حقوق النشر الخاصة بالصور الرقمية الملونة. تعتمد هذه الطريقة على مجموعة من التحويلات الرقمية (DWT ، DCT) في مجال التردد. تعتمد عملية التضمين في هذه الطريقة على تقسيم الصورة المضيفة إلى كتل غير متراكبة 16 × 16 واستخدام مقياس إنتروبيا الحافة لاختيار الكتل المناسبة لعملية التضمين لزيادة عدم الإدراك في النظام المقترح. أما بالنسبة لعملية الاستخراج ، فهي تتم بطريقة تتطلب وجود الصورة الأصلية ولكنها تتبع نفس بروتوكول التضمين لاستخراج العلامة المائية المشفرة المضمنة . و لرفع مستوى الأمان ، تم تطبيق طريقة تشفير هجينة باستخدام الخريطة الفوضوية وترميز الحمض النووي لتشفير العلامة المائية قبل تضمينها. تظهر النتائج التجريبية أن الاختلافات بين الصورة ذات العلامة المائية والصورة الأصلية لا يمكن تمييزها. الطريقة المقترحة قاومت بشكل فعال هجمات معالجة الصور الشائعة.    In this paper, a non-blind watermarking method for protecting the copyright of digital color images is introduced. This method based on the combination of digital transforms (DWT, DCT) in the frequency domain. The embedding process in this method depends on the partition of the host image into 16×16 non-overlapped blocks and the use of edge entropy metric to choose the appropriate blocks for the insertion process for the purpose of increasing the imperceptibility of the proposed system. As for the extraction process, it is carried out in a way that requires the presence of the original image but rather follows the same embedding protocol to extract the embedded encrypted watermark. To raise the security level, a hybrid encryption method using the chaotic map and DNA coding has been applied for encrypting the watermark before embedding it. Experimental results demonstrate that the differences between the watermarked image and the original image are indistinguishable. The proposed method is effectively resisted common image processing attacks

RESEARCH OF DUAL WATERMARKING TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL IMAGE

Tema ovog rada je projektiranje i izrada animatroničke šake, pokretane umjetnim pneumatskim mišićima. Svrha takve šake je da oponaša pokrete ljudske šake, te bi se kao takva mogla primjeniti u industriji za upravljanje strojevima na daljinu, ili u medicini kao bionička proteza. U sljedećem tekstu bit će opisano dizajniranje šake u CAD software-u, izrada šake, te projektiranje i izrada pneumatskih mišića i mikroprocesorskog sustava za upravljanje šakom elektromiografskim senzorima.The goal of this project is design and manufacturing of an animatronic hand, driven by artificial pneumatic muscles. The purpose of the animatronic hand is to mimic human motion. Such hand could be applied in industry as a means of remotely operating machines, or in medicine as a bionic prosthetic hand. The designing process of the hand in the CAD software, and its manufacturing will be described in the following text, as well as designing and manufacturing the pneumatic muscles, microcontroller system and applying EMG (electromyographic) sensors which will control the hand

A Study in Image Watermarking Schemes using Neural Networks

The digital watermarking technique, an effective way to protect image, has become the research focus on neural network. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief study on broad theories and discuss the different types of neural networks for image watermarking. Most of the research interest image watermarking based on neural network in discrete wavelet transform or discrete cosine transform. Generally image watermarking based on neural network to solve the problem on to reduce the error, improve the rate of the learning, achieves goods imperceptibility and robustness. It will be useful for researches to implement effective image watermarking by using neural network

A Color Image Watermarking Scheme Based On QR Factorization, Logistic and Lorentz Chaotic Maps

Most of the existing color image watermarking schemes use grayscale or binary image as watermark because color image watermark has more data than grayscale or binary watermark. Therefore, it is a challenging issue to design a color image-watermarking scheme. This paper proposes a novel color image watermarking scheme to embed color image watermark into color host image. In watermarking schemes, first divide the host and watermark image into non-overlapping blocks, apply the Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) on each blocks of both watermark, and host image. After that QR Factorization, apply on the each blocks of watermark. In this paper, Logistic and Lorentz chaotic maps are usedfor estimating the embedding strength and location. The experimental results reveal that this watermarking scheme is robust against different image processing attacks viz. cropping, contrast adjustment and coloring

Application of Stochastic Diffusion for Hiding High Fidelity Encrypted Images

Cryptography coupled with information hiding has received increased attention in recent years and has become a major research theme because of the importance of protecting encrypted information in any Electronic Data Interchange system in a way that is both discrete and covert. One of the essential limitations in any cryptography system is that the encrypted data provides an indication on its importance which arouses suspicion and makes it vulnerable to attack. Information hiding of Steganography provides a potential solution to this issue by making the data imperceptible, the security of the hidden information being a threat only if its existence is detected through Steganalysis. This paper focuses on a study methods for hiding encrypted information, specifically, methods that encrypt data before embedding in host data where the ‘data’ is in the form of a full colour digital image. Such methods provide a greater level of data security especially when the information is to be submitted over the Internet, for example, since a potential attacker needs to first detect, then extract and then decrypt the embedded data in order to recover the original information. After providing an extensive survey of the current methods available, we present a new method of encrypting and then hiding full colour images in three full colour host images with out loss of fidelity following data extraction and decryption. The application of this technique, which is based on a technique called ‘Stochastic Diffusion’ are wide ranging and include covert image information interchange, digital image authentication, video authentication, copyright protection and digital rights management of image data in general

A review on structured scheme representation on data security application

With the rapid development in the era of Internet and networking technology, there is always a requirement to improve the security systems, which secure the transmitted data over an unsecured channel. The needs to increase the level of security in transferring the data always become the critical issue. Therefore, data security is a significant area in covering the issue of security, which refers to protect the data from unwanted forces and prevent unauthorized access to a communication. This paper presents a review of structured-scheme representation for data security application. There are five structured-scheme types, which can be represented as dual-scheme, triple-scheme, quad-scheme, octal-scheme and hexa-scheme. These structured-scheme types are designed to improve and strengthen the security of data on the application