Robust hybrid image watermarking scheme based on KAZE features and IWT-SVD

Liu, Xiyao; Wang, Yifan; Du, Jingyu; Liao, Shenghui; Lou, Jieting; Zou, Beiji

doi:10.1007/s11042-018-6361-2

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“…Robust watermarking methods designed for copyright protection should resist a wide variety of common attacks, especially malicious attacks, including filtering, noise, lossy compression, geometric attacks, etc. [ 18 , 19 ]. In copyright protection applications, there is no need to share the side information (secret key, scale-invariant feature transformation (SIFT) descriptor, etc.)…”

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A Hybrid Robust Image Watermarking Method Based on DWT-DCT and SIFT for Copyright Protection

Hamidi¹,

Haziti

Cherifi³

2021

J. Imaging

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In this paper, a robust hybrid watermarking method based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT), discrete cosine transform (DCT), and scale-invariant feature transformation (SIFT) is proposed. Indeed, it is of prime interest to develop robust feature-based image watermarking schemes to withstand both image processing attacks and geometric distortions while preserving good imperceptibility. To this end, a robust watermark is embedded in the DWT-DCT domain to withstand image processing manipulations, while SIFT is used to protect the watermark from geometric attacks. First, the watermark is embedded in the middle band of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients of the HL1 band of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Then, the SIFT feature points are registered to be used in the extraction process to correct the geometric transformations. Extensive experiments have been conducted to assess the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. The results demonstrate its high robustness against standard image processing attacks and geometric manipulations while preserving a high imperceptibility. Furthermore, it compares favorably with alternative methods.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Hybrid Robust Image Watermarking Method Based on DWT-DCT and SIFT for Copyright Protection

Hamidi¹,

Haziti

Cherifi³

2021

J. Imaging

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“…Because a video can be regarded as a temporally continuous collection of still images, most image watermarking schemes [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] are also applicable for video watermarking. Existing image watermarking algorithms offer some ideas for resisting geometric attacks, and video watermarking can use these as references.…”

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“…Existing image watermarking algorithms offer some ideas for resisting geometric attacks, and video watermarking can use these as references. In addition, feature point-based watermarking [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] is a common type of image watermarking against geometric attacks, but it suffers from the watermark location inaccuracy. This paper is aimed at extending feature point-based image watermarking to video watermarking and addressing its existing issue, in order to improve its resistance against geometric attacks.…”

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Enhancing Feature Point-Based Video Watermarking against Geometric Attacks with Template

Guan

Huang

et al. 2021

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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As the Internet and communication technologies have developed quickly, the spread and usage of online video content have become easier, which results in major infringement problems. While video watermarking may be a viable solution for digital video content copyright protection, overcoming geometric attacks is a significant challenge. Although feature point-based watermarking algorithms are expected to be very resistant to these attacks, they are sensitive to feature region localization errors, resulting in poor watermark extraction accuracy. To solve this issue, we introduce the template to enhance the location accuracy of feature point-based watermarking. Furthermore, a scene change-based frame allocation method is presented, which arranges the template and the watermark to be embedded into different frames and eliminates their mutual interference, enhancing the performance of the proposed algorithm. According to the experimental results, our algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of robustness against geometric attacks under close imperceptibility.

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“…As a result, the watermarking technology for copyright protection of color images has gradually developed. Depending on the difference of the embedding locations, image watermarking can be divided into two categories: watermarking in the spatial domain [13][14][15] and watermarking in the transform domain [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. Chou and Wu [13] embedded the color watermark image into the color host images uniformly by modifying the quantization indices of color pixels.…”

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“…In addition, it cannot be used effectively in real-time applications. Liu et al [21] proposed a robust hybrid color image watermarking algorithm by fusing a local KAZE feature-based watermarking scheme with a conventional watermarking scheme based on integer wavelet transform (IWT). Its watermark capacity is limited.…”

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A Robust Color Image Watermarking Algorithm Based on APDCBT and SSVD

Wang

Zhou

2019

Symmetry

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With the wide application of color images, watermarking for the copyright protection of color images has become a research hotspot. In this paper, a robust color image watermarking algorithm based on all phase discrete cosine biorthogonal transform (APDCBT) and shuffled singular value decomposition (SSVD) is proposed. The host image is transformed by the 8 × 8 APDCBT to obtain the direct current (DC) coefficient matrix, and then, the singular value decomposition (SVD) is performed on the DC matrix to embed the watermark. The SSVD and Fibonacci transform are mainly used at the watermark preprocessing stage to improve the security and robustness of the algorithm. The watermarks are color images, and a color quick response (QR) code with error correction mechanism is introduced to be a watermark to further improve the robustness. The watermark embedding and extraction processes are symmetrical. The experimental results show that the algorithm can effectively resist common image processing attacks, such as JPEG compression, Gaussian noise, salt and pepper noise, average filter, median filter, Gaussian filter, sharpening, scaling attacks, and a certain degree of rotation attacks. Compared with the color image watermarking algorithms considered in this paper, the proposed algorithm has better performance in robustness and imperceptibility.

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Robust hybrid image watermarking scheme based on KAZE features and IWT-SVD

Cited by 16 publications

References 29 publications

A Hybrid Robust Image Watermarking Method Based on DWT-DCT and SIFT for Copyright Protection

A Hybrid Robust Image Watermarking Method Based on DWT-DCT and SIFT for Copyright Protection

Enhancing Feature Point-Based Video Watermarking against Geometric Attacks with Template

A Robust Color Image Watermarking Algorithm Based on APDCBT and SSVD

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