Content adaptive watermarking using a 2-stage predictor

Digital watermarking is one of the solutions to protect intellectual properties and copyright by hiding information, such as a random sequence or a logo, into digital media. In this paper, a new watermarking scheme is proposed. The embedding process takes place in the spatial domain. A bi-level logo is embedded into digital media by comparing the absolute difference between the original pixel value and the predicted pixel value, which is computed and predicted by using the concept of activity measurement, followed by spatial varying filter (SVF). The logo will be extracted from a possibly corrupted image, without the help of original uncorrupted image. The new proposed algorithm can withstand the geometric attacks as well as common signal processing, and has a high payload capacity.