Digital Watermarking Algorithm Based on Wavelet Transform and Neural Network

An effective blind digital watermarking algorithm based on neural networks in the wavelet domain is presented. Firstly, the host image is decomposed through wavelet transform. The significant coefficients of wavelet are selected according to the human visual system （HVS） characteristics. Watermark bits are added to them. And then effectively cooperates neural networks to learn the characteristics of the embedded watermark related to them. Because of the learning and adaptive capabilities of neural networks, the trained neural networks almost exactly recover the watermark from the watermarked image. Experimental results and comparisons with other techniques prove the effectiveness of the new algorithm.

Spread Spectrum Watermark Based on Wavelet Transform for Still Digital Image

The proposed method inserts a watermark into the spectral components of the data using techniques analogous to spread spectrum communications, hiding a narrow band signal in a wideband channel. The watermark is difficult for an attacker to remove. It is also robust to common signal and geometric distortion such as JPEG compression, cropping and scaling. In addition, the watermark can be extracted accurately without source host image at the receiver. Key words digital watermark - spread spectrum techniques - wavelet transform CLC number TN 911.73 - X 913. 2 Foundation item: Supported by Wuhan University Innovation Foundation (904270072)Biography: Shao Hai-mei (1975-), female, lecturer, research direction: wavelet application, image process, digital watermark.

A New Image Watermarking Scheme Using Genetic Algorithm and Residual Numbers with Discrete Wavelet Transform

Transmission of data over the internet has become a critical issue as a result of the advancement in technology, since it is possible for pirates to steal the intellectual property of content owners. This paper presents a new digital watermarking scheme that combines some operators of the Genetic Algorithm (GA) and the Residue Number (RN) System (RNS) to perform encryption on an image, which is embedded into a cover image for the purposes of watermarking. Thus, an image watermarking scheme uses an encrypted image. The secret image is embedded in decomposed frames of the cover image achieved by applying a three-level Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). This is to ensure that the secret information is not exposed even when there is a successful attack on the cover information. Content creators can prove ownership of the multimedia content by unveiling the secret information in a court of law. The proposed scheme was tested with sample data using MATLAB2022 and the results of the simulation show a great deal of imperceptibility and robustness as compared to similar existing schemes.

Object-Oriented Wavelet-Layered Digital Watermarking Technique

In this paper, an object-oriented digital watermarking technique is proposed in the wavelet domain for still images. According to the difference of recognition degree of the human eye to the different region of the image, the image is divided into the interested region and uninterested region of human eye vision in this scheme. Using the relativity of position and the difference to ocular sensitivity of the multiresolution wavelet among each subband, the image is processed with layered watermarking append technique. Experimental results show that the proposed technique successfully survives image processing operations, additive noise and JPEG compression.

Adaptive Image Digital Watermarking with DCT and FCM

A novel adaptive digital image watermark algorithm is proposed. Fuzzy c-means clustering （FCM） is used to classify the original image blocks into two classes based on several characteristic parameters of human visual system （HVS）. One is suited for embedding a digital watermark, the other is not. So the appropriate blocks in an image are selected to embed the watermark. The wetermark is embedded in the middle-frequency part of the host image in conjunction with HVS and discrete cosine transform （DCT）. The maximal watermark strength is fixed according to the frequency masking. In the same time, for the good performance, the watermark is modulated into a fractal modulation array. The simulation results show that we can remarkably extract the hiding watermark and the algorithm can achieve good robustness with common signal distortion or geometric distortion and the quality of the watermarked image is guaranteed.

A Robust Image Watermarking Scheme Using Z-Transform, Discrete Wavelet Transform and Bidiagonal Singular Value Decomposition

Watermarking is a widely used solution to the problems of authentication and copyright protection of digital media especially for images,videos,and audio data.Chaos is one of the emerging techniques adopted in image watermarking schemes due to its intrinsic cryptographic properties.This paper proposes a new chaotic hybrid watermarking method combining Discrete Wavelet Transform(DWT),Z-transform(ZT)and Bidiagonal Singular Value Decomposition(BSVD).The original image is decomposed into 3-level DWT,and then,ZT is applied on the HH3 and HL3 sub-bands.The watermark image is encrypted using Arnold Cat Map.BSVD for the watermark and transformed original image were computed,and the watermark was embedded by modifying singular values of the host image with the singular values of the watermark image.Robustness of the proposed scheme was examined using standard test images and assessed against common signal processing and geometric attacks.Experiments indicated that the proposed method is transparent and highly robust.

Copyright protection in digital museum based on digital holography and discrete wavelet transform

A new method to protect the copyright of digital museum based on digital holography is proposed. The Fresnel hologram of watermark image is embedded in the object to be protected through discrete wavelet transform （DWT）. After the watermark detection, the copyright information appears in the reconstructed hologram. With the higher redundancy feature in the hologram, the proposed technique can actually survive several kinds of image processing. Experimental results prove that the presented method has good robustness in image protection.

Wavelet-based gray-level digital image watermarking

The watermarking technique has been proposed as a method by hiding secret information into the image to protect the copyright of multimedia data. But most previous work focuses on the algorithms of embedding one dimensional watermarks or two dimensional binary digital watermarks. In this paper, a wavelet based method for embedding a gray level digital watermark into an image is proposed. By still image decomposition technique, a gray level digital watermark is decompounded into a series of bitplanes. By discrete wavelet transform ( DWT ), the host image is decomposed into multiresolution representations with hierarchical structure. The different bitplanes of the gray level watermark is embedded into the corresponding resolution of the decomposed host image. The experimental results show that the proposed techniques can successfully survive image processing operations and the lossy compression techniques such as Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG).

A Novel Digital Audio Watermarking Scheme in the Wavelet Domain

We present a novel quantization-based digital audio walermarking scheme inwavelet domain. By quantizing a host audio's wavelet coefficients (Integer Lifting WaveletTransform) and utilizing the characteristics of human auditory system (HAS), the grayimage isembedded using our watermarking method. Experimental results show that the proposed watermarkingscheme is inaudible and robust against various signal processing such as noising adding, lossycompression, low pass filtering, re-sampling, and re-quantifying.

DWT-Based Watermarking Scheme for Digital Images

A watermarking scheme for digital images is introduced. This method is based on discrete wavelet transform and spread spectrum technique. A discrete wavelet transformed binary signature image is expanded by an m sequence and added to the large wavelet coefficients of a host image with a scale factor. Good balance between transparency and robustness is achieved by the selection of the scale factor. In addition, the spread spectrum technique is adopted to increase the robustness of this watermarking scheme. The experimental results show that the proposed method is of good performance and robustness for common image operations such as JPEG lossy compression, etc.

Image Watermarking Method Using Integer-to-Integer Wavelet Transforms

Digital watermarking is an efficient method for copyright protection for text, image, audio, and video data. This paper presents a new image watermarking method based on integer-to-integer wavelet transforms. The watermark is embedded in the significant wavelet coefficients by a simple exclusive OR operation. The method avoids complicated computations and high computer memory requirements that are the main drawbacks of common frequency domain based watermarking algorithms. Simulation results show that the embedded watermark is perceptually invisible and robust to various operations, such as low quality joint picture expert group (JPEG) compression, random and Gaussian noises, and smoothing (mean filtering).

A Novel Digital Image Watermarking Scheme on Copyright Protection Based on Network Manufacture Environment

In this paper,we propose a novel wavelet-domain digital image watermarking scheme on copyright protection based on network manufacture environment.It codes the watermarking with error correcting coding and encrypts the watermarking with chaotic encryption.It embeds the watermarking into the coefficients which have large absolute values in the middle-frequency parts got by Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) repeatedly.The extraction doesn’t need the original image.Experiment results show that the proposed scheme is easy to implement,and has good robustness to some attacks,such as JPEG compression,average filtering,median filtering,wiener filtering,pepper (?) salt noise,especially to cropping and scaling.In order to solve the prob- lem of the copyright protection of the network manufacture production,the problems of digital image production such as tamper preventing and watermarking attacks preventing and so on are discussed.It solves the problems of manufacture information such as secure exchange and transmissions and production copyright protection and so on.

Robust Audio Blind Watermarking Algorithm Based on Haar Transform

To solve the problem of low capacity of audio watermarking information and poor robustness of impact resistance,a digital audio watermark algorithm based on wavelet transform is presented in this paper. In this algorithm,the fine and approximate components are obtained when the Haar wavelet base is used to convert each frame of the audio signal to its discrete transform. Then the HAS algorithm is applied to the fine component embedded with watermark to realize encryption process. The original audio carrier signal is not needed in extraction,as long as the signal is embedded after the frame is divided. The first two sections of each frame are implemented in Haar transform respectively to get the fine and approximate component. The watermark images are obtained from the former two fine components of the energy watermark sequence after calculating,comparing and extracting. The simulation results show that there is a certain transparency for the algorithm,a good robustness against the resampling and low pass filtering attack.

A Watermarking Algorithm Based on Wavelet and Hadamard Transform for Color Image

Digital image watermarking is a useful solution to the problem of information security, copyright and network security. In this paper, we propose a watermarking algorithm for color image based HT and DWT. A binary image as watermark is embedded into green component or blue component of color image. The algorithm can satisfy the transparence and robustness of the watermarking system very well. The experiment based on this algorithm demonstrates that the watermarking is robust to the common signal processing techniques including JPEG compressing, adding noise, low pass filter, and mosaic.

基于HVS和小波变换的零水印数字图像算法

该文在分析了现有数字水印特点的基础上,提出了一种新的水印方法。该算法利用了零水印和小波变换的特性,并根据图像的视觉特性选择合适的水印嵌入点,在此基础上利用零水印实现信息的隐藏,因为零水印利用图像的重要特征来构造水印信息,而不是修改图像的重要特征,因此能够很好地解决水印鲁棒性和不可见性之间的关系。实验证明,该算法抵抗各种攻击的能力是很好的。

基于混沌和HVS的小波域自适应图像水印算法

针对常规的小波域水印算法自适应性差的缺陷,提出了一种新的基于混沌和人类视觉系统的小波域自适应图像水印算法。首先对载体图像进行二级DWT变换;然后对特定的中频子带进行分块,并对每块做SVD分解;最后将Logistic混沌置乱后的二值水印信息嵌入到每块的最大奇异值中,嵌入的强度根据HVS原理自适应地进行调整。仿真实验表明,该算法不仅具有很好的不可见性,且对JPEG压缩、加噪、滤波等常见的图像攻击具有很强的鲁棒性。

一种基于HVS的图像自适应盲水印算法

利用人眼视觉系统对背景亮度和纹理的掩盖特性,对小波变换后的系数进行分类,分类的结果是基于图像特征的。对二值水印图像预处理后,根据分类结果采用不同强度自适应的嵌入水印,嵌入采用奇偶判决法则。水印的提取不需要原始载体图像和原始水印图像。实验结果表明,此算法的不可觉察性很好,并对一些诸如中值滤波、JPEG有损压缩、附加高斯噪声、裁剪等各种图像处理攻击有较强的鲁棒性。

一种基于HVS的利用零树编码的水印算法

提出了一种利用人类视觉特性的数字图像水印算法 .先采取直接序列扩展方式生成水印序列信号 ,然后嵌入到一组按重要性选出的小波系数中 ,其中嵌入强度由小波域临界可见误差JND(JustNoticedDiffer ence)门限决定 .实验证明此算法在水印的不可见性和鲁棒性之间取得了良好的平衡 ,既保证了人眼视觉的不可察觉性 ,又具有较好的鲁棒性 .