Digital technologies are playing a vital role in the present communication system. This paper presents a robust and secure watermarking method to protect the copyright information of multimedia objects. In the proposed method, Discrete Wavelet Transform and Discrete Cosine Transform are applied on the cover image and then Discrete Cosine Transform coefficients of watermark image are embedded into transformed cover image. The experimental result shows the performance evaluation of the proposed method by the quality metrics as PSNR for watermarked image and NC for extracted watermark image and we have compared the results with the existing transformation methods in frequency domain based on attacks

Dr. R. Eswaraiah

E.Sreenivasa Reddy

English

Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology (GJCST)

© 2012. R.Eswaraiah & E.Sreenivasa Reddy. This is a research/review paper, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction inany medium, provided the original work is properly cited.    Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology Graphics & Vision  Volume 12 Issue 12 Version 1.0 Year 2012 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Inc. (USA) Online ISSN: 0975-4172 & Print ISSN: 0975-4350  Robust Watermarking Method for Color Images Using DCT Coefficients of Watermark                    By R.Eswaraiah & E.Sreenivasa Reddy                                                         Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Guntur, India Abstract - Digital technologies are playing a vital role in the present communication system. This paper presents a robust and secure watermarking method to protect the copyright information of multimedia objects. In the proposed method, Discrete Wavelet Transform and Discrete Cosine Transform are applied on the cover image and then Discrete Cosine Transform coefficients of watermark image are embedded into transformed cover image. The experimental result shows the performance evaluation of the proposed method by the quality metrics as PSNR for watermarked image and NC for extracted watermark image and we have compared the results with the existing transformation methods in frequency domain based on attacks. Keywords : Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT);Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT);PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio);NC (Normalized Correlation) GJCST-F Classification:  I.4.0  Robust Watermarking Method for Color Images Using DCT Coefficients of Watermark     Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of:    Robust Watermarking Method for Color Images Using DCT Coefficients of Watermark R.Eswaraiah α & E.Sreenivasa Reddy σ Abstract - Digital technologies are playing a vital role in the present communication system. This paper presents a robust and secure watermarking method to protect the copyright information of multimedia objects. In the proposed method, Discrete Wavelet Transform and Discrete Cosine Transform are applied on the cover image and then Discrete Cosine Transform coefficients of watermark image are embedded into transformed cover image.  The experimental result shows the performance evaluation of the proposed method by the quality metrics as PSNR for watermarked image and NC for extracted watermark image and we have compared the results with the existing transformation methods in frequency domain based on attacks.  Keywords : Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT);Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT);PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio);NC (Normalized Correlation) I. INTRODUCTION ow days the rapid growth of the technology is a cause for the requirement of the protection of copyright information from unauthorized access. Hence an advanced authentication method is essential to the data security. Digital watermarking is one such method that offers data security. At present various kinds of digital watermarking methods are in use to protect the information from unauthorized access. Any security method come under either spatial [1] like LSB or frequency domain [2] like Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) [5], Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) [3], Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) [6] and the combination of them [7, 8] as well as any method can come under either blind or non blind watermarking. In blind watermarking the cover image is not used to decipher the watermark [3]. The cover image is used to decipher the watermark in the non-blind watermarking [4]. This paper proposes a non blind watermarking method based on the frequency domain. This method uses the transformations to improve the robustness of the system. The necessary features are perceptual quality and robustness to determine the quality of watermarking scheme. In the frequency domain, DWT decomposes an image into multi-resolution components i.e. horizontal, vertical and diagonal [5] and DCT segregate each block into three frequency sub-bands: low, mid and high [3]. DFT requires an input image that is discrete. Such inputs  Author α : Department of CSE Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology Guntur, India. E-mail : eswar_507@yahoo.co.in Author σ : Department of CSE Acharya Nagarjuna Univeristy Guntur, India. E-mail : edara_67@yahoo.com  are often created by sampling a continuous function. But, in this correspondence, DWT- DCT combination [7] and DCT coefficients of watermark are used in the proposed method. It improves all security factors in the data transfer. The strength of this paper is, analysis of the proposed scheme based on the standard metrics such as PSNR and NC and it sustains the general attacks like Gaussian noise, salt & pepper noise, Poisson noise, Gaussian blur, sharpening and common image processing operations like cropping, JPEG compression. The rest of the paper is organized in the following way. Section 2 consists of proposed method. Section 3 holds the description of performance metrics. Results and analysis are illustrated in Section 4. II. PROPOSED METHOD The main aim of the proposed method is to improve the quality of watermarked image and robustness of the watermark. This approach consists of two major processes.  • Applying DWT and DCT on RGB cover image to get transformed image. • Embed DCT coefficients of watermark image into transformed image. a) Watermark Embedding Algorithm In watermark embedding process, till now researchers are using either DWT or DCT or both transformations. Here, we are using both DWT and DCT to transform the cover image as transformed image and a new and efficient embedding algorithm which embeds DCT coefficients of watermark image into transformed image to get the watermarked image as shown in Fig 1. It is elucidated in the following way. Algorithm  Step 1: Consider any color image as cover image denote it by ‘I’. Get R, G, B channels of cover image ‘I’.   Step 2: Apply DWT to blue channel ‘B’ to get the multi-resolution sub-bands LL1, HL1, LH1, and HH1. When compared to red and green channels blue channel is more resistant to changes. Step 3:  Apply DWT again to HL1 sub-band of B channel and choose HL2 sub-band. Step 4: Divide the HL2 sub-band into blocks of size 8×8. Step 5: Apply DCT to the blocks obtained in step 4. N © 2012 Global Journals Inc.  (US)Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology       Volume XII  Issue XII  Version I        31   (DDDD)F  2012YearStep 6: Consider any gray scale image as watermark, denote it by ‘w’ and then apply DCT to the watermark ‘w’.            Figure 1 :    Watermark embedding process Step 7: To embed the watermark, select any four coefficients in the mid frequency band of each DCT block of HL2 sub-band. Step 8: Four DCT coefficients of watermark are stored in each DCT block of HL2 sub-band. Step 9: The DC component from the DCT coefficients of watermark is normalized before embedding. Step 10: Apply IDCT to the blocks of HL2 sub-band. Step 11: Apply IDWT for 2 levels. Step 12: Combine R, G, B channels to get watermarked image ‘WI’. It helps to improve the copyright protection of the cover image and robustness of the watermark in the watermarked image.  b) Watermark Extraction Algorithm Extraction of watermark image from watermarked image is explained as follows and it is shown in Fig 2. Algorithm               III. PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METRICS To measure the quality of the watermarked image peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) is used. The quality of extracted watermark is measured using Normalized Correlation (NC) between the extracted and the original watermark.           Figure 2 :    Watermark extraction process a) Peak Signal to Noise Ratio  It is a metric which is used regularly to find the quality of the watermarked image. It is calculated by considering the following formula  PSNR=log (2n−1)2MSE Where n denotes the number of bits used for color representation and MSE refers to the Mean Square Error between original and water marked image and is calculated with the formula. MSE =∑ ∑ ∑ (I[i, j] − I′ [i, j])2𝑁𝑁𝑗𝑗=1𝑀𝑀𝑖𝑖=1𝑅𝑅,𝐺𝐺 ,𝐵𝐵3MN Here, M and N are the height and width of image respectively. I[i, j] denotes the (i, j)th pixel value of the original image and I’[i, j] denotes the (i, j)th pixel value of watermarked  image.  b) Normalized Correlation (NC) It is one of the metrics used to find the quality of extracted watermark image with respect to the original watermark image. It is found by using the following formula. NC =∑ ∑ w(i, j)w′(i, j)Nj=1Mi=1�∑ ∑ w(i, j)^2Nj=1Mi=1 �∑ ∑ w′(i, j)^2Nj=1Mi=1 Here, w(i, j) is the original watermark, w’(i, j) is the extracted watermark. IV. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS As per this proposed method, a Lena color image of size 512×512 is considered as cover image as shown in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 is a gray scale image of skeleton with size 32×32 is chosen as watermark.        Figure 3 :  Original Image      Figure 4 : Watermark image     ©  2012 Global Journals Inc.  (US)           Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology       Volume XII  Issue XII  Version I 32   (DDDD)F  2012YearStep 1: Get R, G, B channels of watermarked image ‘WI’.Step 2: Apply DWT to blue channel ‘B’ to get the multi-resolution sub-bands LL1, HL1, LH1, and HH1.Step 3: Apply DWT again to HL1 sub-band of B channel and choose HL2 sub-band.Step 4: Divide the HL2 sub-band into blocks of size 8×8.Step 5: Apply DCT to the blocks obtained in step 4Step 6: Obtain four DCT coefficients of watermark from the four selected coefficients of mid frequency band of each DCT of HL2 sub-band.Step 7: To get the watermark apply IDCT on the set of DCT coefficients obtained from previous step.       Figure 5 :  Watermarked image After applying the proposed method the resultant watermarked image is shown as Fig.5.                                                                                                                  © 2012 Global Journals Inc.  (US)Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology       Volume XII  Issue XII  Version I        33   (DDDD)F  2012Year         Table 1 summarizes PSNR value of watermarked image and NC value of extracted watermark image when the watermarked image is not attacked and undergoes any attack like Gaussian noise, salt & pepper noise, Poisson noise, Gaussian blur, sharpening and image manipulation operations like cropping, JPEG compression are applied. Table I :    PSNR and NC values           Table 2 shows comparison results of the proposed method with the existing transformation methods such as DWT [5], DWT-DCT [9] and Bior [10] based on the NC value between original and extracted watermark when the watermarked image undergoes any attacks. Table II : Comparison Results  This robust watermarking method is proposed for increasing the security of data hiding as well as quality compared with the existing algorithms. Authenticity is incorporated by embedding the DCT coefficients of watermark image into the transformed image. Experimental results based on attacks confirm that the proposed algorithm performs better than the DWT, DWT-DCT and Bior based scheme and robustness is achieved by hiding DCT coefficients of watermark image in transformed image by the frequency transformations as DWT and DCT.  We are very much thankful to the various reviewers who helped us to bring the paper effectively. The valuable suggestions of Dr. Ch.Rupa could not be underestimated in several situations of developing the paper. We sincerely thank our other research friends for giving their precious cautions. For the invaluable research facilities provided by the magnanimous management for achieving the work, we convey our deepest thanks. 1. Manik Mondal, Debalina Barik, “Spatial domain robust watermarking scheme for color image,” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science,   vol.2, no.1, pp. 24-27, Jan 2012. 2. Baisa L. Gunjal, Suresh N. Mali, “Strongly robust and highly secured DWT-SVD based color image watermarking: embedding data in all Y, U, V color spaces,” I.J. Information Technology and Computer Science, vol.3, pp. 1-7, April 2012. 3. Zheng Chaomei, Li Yuan, “A blind watermarking algorithm based on DCT for dual color images,” International Conference on Computer Science and Network Technology, vol.3, pp. 1690-1694, December 2011. 4. Dharwadkar N.V, Amberker B.B, Gorai A, “Non-blind watermarking scheme for color images in RGB space using DWT-SVD,” International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing,  pp. 489-493, February 2011. 5. Cheng-qun Yin, Li Li, An-qiang Lv and Li Qu, “Color image watermarking algorithm based on DWT-SVD,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, pp. 2607-2611, August 2007. 6. Chengqing GUO, Guoai Xu, Xinxin Niu, Yixian Yang, Yang Li, “A color image watermarking algorithm resistant to Print-Scan,” IEEE International Conference Wireless Communications, Networking and Information Security, pp. 518-521, June 2010.7. Baisa L. Gunjal, Suresh N. Mali, “Secured color image watermarking technique in DWT -DCT domain,” International Journal of Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology (IJCSEIT), vol.1, no.3, pp. 36-44, August 2011. 8. Yuping Hu, Zhijian Wang, Hui Liu, Guangjun Guo “A geometric distortion resilient image watermark algorithm based on DWT-DFT”, Journal of Software, vol.6, no.9, pp. 1805-1812, September 2011. 9. V.Santhi, Arunkumar Thangavelu, “DC coefficients based watermarking technique for color images Attack / Operation PSNR NC No attack 85.76 1.000 Gaussian noise 65.46 0.996 Salt & Pepper noise 65.45 0.998 Poisson noise 85.76 1.000 Gaussian blur 79.18 0.998 Sharpening 68.73 0.995 Cropping 60.28 0.920 JPEG compression 63.45 0.910 Attack / Operation  DWT  DWT-DCT  Bior  DCT  Coeff  Gaussian noise  0.7415  0.993  0.8575  0.996  Salt & Pepper noise  --  0.997  0.8518  0.998  Poisson noise  --  --  0.8567  1.000  Gaussian blur  0.8968  0.997  --  0.998  Sharpening  --  0.992  --  0.995  Cropping  0.9031  0.861  0.8484  0.920  JPEG compression  0.8775  0.756  0.7505  0.910   using singular  value decomposition,” International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering, vol.3, no.1, February 2011. 10. K.Ramani, E.V.Prasad, V.lokanadham Naidu, D.Ganesh “Color image watermarking using Bi-Orthogonal wavelet transform”, International Journal of Computer Applications, volo.11, no.9, pp. 25-29, December 2010.         ©  2012 Global Journals Inc.  (US)           Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology       Volume XII  Issue XII  Version I 34   (DDDD)F  2012Year

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