Secure and Robust Image Watermarking Scheme Using Homomorphic Transform, SVD and Arnold Transform in RDWT Domain

The main objective for a watermarking technique is to attain imperceptibility, robustness and security against various malicious attacks applied by illicit users. To fulfil these basic requirements for a scheme is a big issue of concern. So, in this paper, a new image watermarking method is proposed which utilizes properties of homomorphic transform, Redundant Discrete Wavelet Transform (RDWT), Arnold Transform (AT) along with Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to attain these required properties. RDWT is performed on host image to achieve LL subband. This LL subband image is further decomposed into illumination and reflectance components by homomorphic transform. In order to strengthen security of proposed scheme, AT is used to scramble watermark. This scrambled watermark is embedded with Singular Values (SVs) of reflectance component which are obtained by applying SVD to it. Since reflectance component contains important features of image, therefore, embedding of watermark in this part provides excellent imperceptibility. Proposed scheme is comprehensively examined against different attacks like scaling, shearing etc. for its robustness. Comparative study with other prevailing algorithms clearly reveals superiority of proposed scheme in terms of robustness and imperceptibility

Scene-based imperceptible-visible watermarking for HDR video content

This paper presents the High Dynamic Range - Imperceptible Visible Watermarking for HDR video content (HDR-IVW-V) based on scene detection for robust copyright protection of HDR videos using a visually imperceptible watermarking methodology. HDR-IVW-V employs scene detection to reduce both computational complexity and undesired visual attention to watermarked regions. Visual imperceptibility is achieved by finding the region of a frame with the highest hiding capacities on which the Human Visual System (HVS) cannot recognize the embedded watermark. The embedded watermark remains visually imperceptible as long as the normal color calibration parameters are held. HDR-IVW-V is evaluated on PQ-encoded HDR video content successfully attaining visual imperceptibility, robustness to tone mapping operations and image quality preservation

A New Method For Digital Watermarking Based on Combination of DCT and PCA

In the digital watermarking with DCT method,the watermark is located within a range of DCT coefficients of the cover image. In this paper to use the low-frequency band, a new method is proposed by using a combination of the DCT and PCA transform. The proposed method is compared to other DCT methods, our method is robust and keeps the quality of cover image, also increases capacity of the watermarking.Comment: Telecommunications Forum Telfor (TELFOR), 2014 22n

A Study And Analysis Of Watermarking Algorithms For Medical Images

Digital watermarking techniques hide digital data into digital images imperceptibly for different purposes and applications such as copyright protection, authentication, and data hiding. Teknik-teknik pembenaman tera air menyembunyikan data digit ke dalam imej-imej digit untuk pelbagai keperluan dan aplikasi seperti perlindungan hak cipta, pengesahan, dan penyembunyian data

Intensifying the Security of Multiomodal Biometric Authentication System using Watermarking

In Multimodal biometrics system two or more biometric attributes are combined which makes it far more secure than unimodal system as it nullifies all the vulnerabilities of it. But with the prompt ontogenesis of information technology, even the biometric data is not secure. There is one such technique that is implemented to secure the biometric data from inadvertent or deliberate attacks is known as Digital watermarking. This paper postulate an approach that is devise in both the directions of enlarging the security through watermarking technique and improving the efficiency of biometric identification system by going multimodal. Three biometric traits are consider in this paper two of them are physical traits i.e. ; face, fingerprint and one is behavioral trait (signature).The biometric traits are initially metamorphose using Discrete Wavelet and Discrete Cosine Transformation and then watermarked using Singular Value Decomposition. Scheme depiction and presented results rationalize the effectiveness of the scheme