A New Hybrid Domain Based Print-Scan Resilient Image Watermarking Technique

With increase in the use of multimedia technology, the integrity of the digital images has become a major problem. The transformation between the soft and hard-copy of the image makes the problem even more complex. This paper proposes a new watermarking technique that is robust against geometrical and print-scan attacks. The method uses multiple domains to embed the message in the image, whereby watermarks are embedded in spatial domain and Fourier log-polar domain. The proposed watermarking technique is able to survive the geometrical, print-scan, and compression attacks. Spatial domain watermark is used to make the method robust against the rotation attack, while Fourier log-polar domain watermark is used to make the method robust against other attacks.