Security attacks on the wavelet transform and singular value decomposition image watermarking

Two vulnerable attacks on the wavelet transform (WT) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) based image watermarking scheme are presented in this paper. The WT-SVD-based watermarking is robust against various common image manipulations and geometrical attacks; however, it cannot resist against two security attacks, i.e. an attacker attack which successfully claims the real owner´s watermarked image, and owner attack which correctly extracts watermark from any arbitrary image. As proved in this study, the SVD watermarking scheme cannot provide trustworthy evidence in rightful ownership protection. In addition, the robustness of the SVD watermarking scheme in is a result of improper algorithm design.