A family of image watermarking schemes based on lossy compression

Author

Herrera-Joancomartí, Jordi ; Minguillón, Julià ; Megías, David

Author_Institution

Estudis d´´Informatica i Multimedia, Univ. Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

2003

fDate

28-30 April 2003

Firstpage

559

Lastpage

563

Abstract

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.

Keywords

code standards; data encapsulation; image coding; vector quantisation; watermarking; JPEG2000 standard; cropping robustness; filtering robustness; image watermarking; lossy image compression robustness; mark embedding process; row/column removal attacks; scalar quantization; vector quantization; Compression algorithms; Discrete wavelet transforms; Image coding; Image quality; Image reconstruction; PSNR; Robustness; Transform coding; Vector quantization; Watermarking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Coding and Computing [Computers and Communications], 2003. Proceedings. ITCC 2003. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1916-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITCC.2003.1197590

Filename

1197590