A Practical Multipurpose Color Image Watermarking Algorithm for Copyright Protection and Image Authentication

Author

Jun, Yuan ; Guo-Hua, Cui ; Yi-jia, Zhang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol.

fYear

2006

fDate

29-31 Aug. 2006

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

72

Abstract

A multipurpose color image watermarking algorithm for copyright protection and image authentication is proposed. The basic idea is to embed the fragile and robust watermarks into different color components of the color image simultaneously. Based on some techniques in cryptology, lossless compression and the method of least significant bit (LSB), the fragile watermark is embedded in spatial domain to achieve the goal of image authentication and watermark extracting control. By modifying the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients, the robust watermark is embedded in the frequency domain to obtain the aim of copyright protection. Simulation results show that the fragile watermark has a good prompting performance upon the tampering of the image and the robust watermark has a strong robustness to JPEG, filtering, brightness and contrast enhancement and additive Gaussian noise

Keywords

Gaussian noise; copyright; data compression; discrete cosine transforms; filtering theory; image coding; image colour analysis; image enhancement; message authentication; watermarking; DCT coefficients; JPEG; additive Gaussian noise; brightness enhancement; contrast enhancement; copyright protection; cryptology; discrete cosine transform coefficients; filtering; image authentication; least significant bit method; lossless compression; multipurpose color image watermarking algorithm; watermark extracting control; Authentication; Color; Copyright protection; Cryptography; Discrete cosine transforms; Filtering; Frequency domain analysis; Image coding; Noise robustness; Watermarking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Telecommunications, , 2006. ICDT '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cote d´Azur

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2650-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDT.2006.10

Filename

1698519