With the development of image processing technology, the copyright protection of digital images has become an urgent problem to be solved. As an effective method, the robust digital watermarking technique emerges at a historic moment. Currently, most robust watermarking schemes are performed in the transform domains, such as the discrete cosine transform (DCT) and singular value decomposition (...

A variety of image watermarking schemes have been proposed using orthogonal transformations, projections, and coding techniques to embed imperceptible watermarks into images. Analytical studies of the watermarking problem have typically been based on studying the performance limits of these known algorithms. In contrast, this paper formalizes the watermarking problem in an “algorithm independen...

Digital Image Watermarking used for protecting digital media files and data. It has been an active research field since last decades. Digital Image watermarking is an approach that enables a user from being misused of personal images or information. Here, the term “watermarking” refer to data hiding for copyright protection and image security. Digital Watermarking is becoming a necessity these ...

Encryption and watermarking are two primary and complementary technologies for protecting multimedia content. In this paper, we present a hybrid image protection scheme to establish a robust content-based authentication by using novel cryptosystem based on matrix transformation for generation of encryption key and copyright protection by using SVD based watermarking system. This paper suggests ...

The proliferation of digitized media due to the rapid growth of networked multimedia systems, has created an urgent need for copyright enforcement technologies that can protect copyright ownership of multimedia objects. Digital image watermarking is one such technology that has been developed to protect digital images from illegal manipulations. In particular, digital image watermarking algorit...

This paper presents an adaptive video watermarking using motion information. Because video data have one more dimension than image data, simple adoptation of image watermarking method to video data would reveal some types of visual artifact such as flickering. In the proposed scheme, same watermark information is embedded for same region in each frame to decrease such visual artifact. For highe...

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 re...

This paper proposes a quantization-based image-quality guaranteed watermarking (IQGW) method using a nonorthogonal discrete wavelet transformation. An IQGW method generates watermarked images of a desired image quality for any image, neither with trial and error nor with image-dependent parameters. To guarantee the image-quality, the proposed method adjusts the energy of the watermark sequence ...

In this paper, a robust digital image watermarking scheme for copyright protection applications using the singular value decomposition (SVD) is proposed. In this scheme, an entropy masking model has been applied on the host image for the texture segmentation. Moreover, the local luminance and textures of the host image are considered for watermark embedding procedure to increase the robustness ...

Vulnerability of watermarking schemes against intense signal processing attacks is generally a major concern, particularly when there are techniques to reproduce an acceptable copy of the original signal with no chance for detecting the watermark. In this paper, we propose a two-layer, data partitioning (DP) based, image in image watermarking method in the DCT domain to improve the watermark de...