Adaptive STDM-Based PDF Documents Watermarking Algorithm Robust to Fixed Gain Attack

Abstract

Spread Transform Dither Modulation (STDM) has good performance in robustness against Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and re-quantization, so it has been widely used in image watermarking algorithms. However, STDM cannot resist Fixed Gain Attack (FGA). In the paper, we introduce an adaptive function into the traditional STDM algorithm, so that it can automatically adjust the amount of distortion according to the text line spacing in the document. Then we give an improved adaptive function to make our algorithm robust to FGA. Analysis and experimental results show that the algorithm proposed in this paper has good invisibility and high robustness against AWGN and FGA.