Efficient Genetic Algorithm Based Image Watermarking Using DWT-SVD Techniques

Author

Poonam, P. ; Kundu, Sandipan ; Kumar, Sudhakar ; Chander, K.

Author_Institution

Indus Inst. of Eng. & Technol., Jind, India

fYear

2012

fDate

14-15 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

82

Lastpage

87

Abstract

This paper presents a new method to improve the robustness and imperceptibleness in watermarking. In this, the singular value of watermark is embedded to singular value of 3rd-level DWT approximation matrix of original image. The genetic algorithm is used to optimise the scaling factor with which the watermark is embedded to host image. The algorithm makes use of fitness function that takes two values PSNR and correlation. Here we also find the transparency and robustness of watermark under various attacks.

Keywords

approximation theory; genetic algorithms; image watermarking; matrix algebra; DWT approximation matrix; DWT-SVD techniques; digital wavelet transform; efficient genetic algorithm; host image; image watermarking; scaling factor; singular value; singular value decomposition; Correlation; Discrete wavelet transforms; Genetic algorithms; Matrix decomposition; PSNR; Robustness; Watermarking; Digital Watermarking; Digital Wavelet Transform (DWT); Genetic Algorithm (GA); Singular Value Decomposition (SVD);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing Sciences (ICCS), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Phagwara

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2647-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCS.2012.32

Filename

6391651