Title :
Color Image Watermarking Using the Spatio-Chromatic Fourier Transform
Author :
Tsui, Tsz Kin ; Zhang, Xiao-Ping ; Androutsos, Dimitri
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ryerson Univ.
Abstract :
In this paper, a color watermarking algorithm is proposed. The method encodes the chromatic content of a color image as CIE a*b* chromaticity coordinates whereas the achromatic content is encoded as CIE L tristimulus value. Color watermarks (yellow and blue) are embedded in the frequency domain of the chromatic channels by using the spatio-chromatic discrete Fourier transform (SCDFT). It first encodes a* and b* as complex values, followed by a single discrete Fourier transform. Watermark casting is performed by estimating the just-noticeable distortion (JND) of the images, to ensure watermark invisibility. The most interesting characteristics of the new scheme is the possibility of performing watermarking in the frequency domain of chromatic components
Keywords :
discrete Fourier transforms; distortion; frequency-domain analysis; image coding; image colour analysis; watermarking; CIE L tristimulus value; CIE a*b* chromaticity coordinates; achromatic content; chromatic channels; chromatic content; color image watermarking; frequency domain; just-noticeable distortion; spatio-chromatic discrete Fourier transform; watermark casting; watermark invisibility; Casting; Digital images; Discrete Fourier transforms; Fourier transforms; Frequency domain analysis; Humans; Image color analysis; Image processing; Visual system; Watermarking;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Toulouse
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0469-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1660340