A family of image watermarking schemes based on lossy compression

This paper describes a methodology for obtaining watermarking schemes using different compression algorithms in the mark embedding process. The compression methods enclose both spatial and transformed domains and both scalar and vector quantization. The result is a family of watermarking algorithms which are robust against different lossy image compression, filtering, cropping and row/column removal attacks, for a reasonable range of image qualities. In addition, the experiments show that the JPEG2000 standard is a promising tool for creating new watermarking schemes.