Watermarks can provide reliable and secure copyright protection for optical coherence tomography(OCT)fundus images.The effective image segmentation is helpful for promoting OCT image watermarking.However,OCT images ha...Watermarks can provide reliable and secure copyright protection for optical coherence tomography(OCT)fundus images.The effective image segmentation is helpful for promoting OCT image watermarking.However,OCT images have a large amount of low-quality data,which seriously affects the performance of segmentationmethods.Therefore,this paper proposes an effective segmentation method for OCT fundus image watermarking using a rough convolutional neural network(RCNN).First,the rough-set-based feature discretization module is designed to preprocess the input data.Second,a dual attention mechanism for feature channels and spatial regions in the CNN is added to enable the model to adaptively select important information for fusion.Finally,the refinement module for enhancing the extraction power of multi-scale information is added to improve the edge accuracy in segmentation.RCNN is compared with CE-Net and MultiResUNet on 83 gold standard 3D retinal OCT data samples.The average dice similarly coefficient(DSC)obtained by RCNN is 6%higher than that of CE-Net.The average 95 percent Hausdorff distance(95HD)and average symmetric surface distance(ASD)obtained by RCNN are 32.4%and 33.3%lower than those of MultiResUNet,respectively.We also evaluate the effect of feature discretization,as well as analyze the initial learning rate of RCNN and conduct ablation experiments with the four different models.The experimental results indicate that our method can improve the segmentation accuracy of OCT fundus images,providing strong support for its application in medical image watermarking.展开更多
Video watermarking plays a crucial role in protecting intellectual property rights and ensuring content authenticity.This study delves into the integration of Galois Field(GF)multiplication tables,especially GF(2^(4))...Video watermarking plays a crucial role in protecting intellectual property rights and ensuring content authenticity.This study delves into the integration of Galois Field(GF)multiplication tables,especially GF(2^(4)),and their interaction with distinct irreducible polynomials.The primary aim is to enhance watermarking techniques for achieving imperceptibility,robustness,and efficient execution time.The research employs scene selection and adaptive thresholding techniques to streamline the watermarking process.Scene selection is used strategically to embed watermarks in the most vital frames of the video,while adaptive thresholding methods ensure that the watermarking process adheres to imperceptibility criteria,maintaining the video's visual quality.Concurrently,careful consideration is given to execution time,crucial in real-world scenarios,to balance efficiency and efficacy.The Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio(PSNR)serves as a pivotal metric to gauge the watermark's imperceptibility and video quality.The study explores various irreducible polynomials,navigating the trade-offs between computational efficiency and watermark imperceptibility.In parallel,the study pays careful attention to the execution time,a paramount consideration in real-world scenarios,to strike a balance between efficiency and efficacy.This comprehensive analysis provides valuable insights into the interplay of GF multiplication tables,diverse irreducible polynomials,scene selection,adaptive thresholding,imperceptibility,and execution time.The evaluation of the proposed algorithm's robustness was conducted using PSNR and NC metrics,and it was subjected to assessment under the impact of five distinct attack scenarios.These findings contribute to the development of watermarking strategies that balance imperceptibility,robustness,and processing efficiency,enhancing the field's practicality and effectiveness.展开更多
Medical imaging plays a key role within modern hospital management systems for diagnostic purposes.Compression methodologies are extensively employed to mitigate storage demands and enhance transmission speed,all whil...Medical imaging plays a key role within modern hospital management systems for diagnostic purposes.Compression methodologies are extensively employed to mitigate storage demands and enhance transmission speed,all while upholding image quality.Moreover,an increasing number of hospitals are embracing cloud computing for patient data storage,necessitating meticulous scrutiny of server security and privacy protocols.Nevertheless,considering the widespread availability of multimedia tools,the preservation of digital data integrity surpasses the significance of compression alone.In response to this concern,we propose a secure storage and transmission solution for compressed medical image sequences,such as ultrasound images,utilizing a motion vector watermarking scheme.The watermark is generated employing an error-correcting code known as Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem(BCH)and is subsequently embedded into the compressed sequence via block-based motion vectors.In the process of watermark embedding,motion vectors are selected based on their magnitude and phase angle.When embedding watermarks,no specific spatial area,such as a region of interest(ROI),is used in the images.The embedding of watermark bits is dependent on motion vectors.Although reversible watermarking allows the restoration of the original image sequences,we use the irreversible watermarking method.The reason for this is that the use of reversible watermarks may impede the claims of ownership and legal rights.The restoration of original data or images may call into question ownership or other legal claims.The peak signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR)and structural similarity index(SSIM)serve as metrics for evaluating the watermarked image quality.Across all images,the PSNR value exceeds 46 dB,and the SSIM value exceeds 0.92.Experimental results substantiate the efficacy of the proposed technique in preserving data integrity.展开更多
Security during remote transmission has been an important concern for researchers in recent years.In this paper,a hierarchical encryption multi-image encryption scheme for people with different security levels is desi...Security during remote transmission has been an important concern for researchers in recent years.In this paper,a hierarchical encryption multi-image encryption scheme for people with different security levels is designed,and a multiimage encryption(MIE)algorithm with row and column confusion and closed-loop bi-directional diffusion is adopted in the paper.While ensuring secure communication of medical image information,people with different security levels have different levels of decryption keys,and differentiated visual effects can be obtained by using the strong sensitivity of chaotic keys.The highest security level can obtain decrypted images without watermarks,and at the same time,patient information and copyright attribution can be verified by obtaining watermark images.The experimental results show that the scheme is sufficiently secure as an MIE scheme with visualized differences and the encryption and decryption efficiency is significantly improved compared to other works.展开更多
The transmission of video content over a network raises various issues relating to copyright authenticity,ethics,legality,and privacy.The protection of copyrighted video content is a significant issue in the video ind...The transmission of video content over a network raises various issues relating to copyright authenticity,ethics,legality,and privacy.The protection of copyrighted video content is a significant issue in the video industry,and it is essential to find effective solutions to prevent tampering and modification of digital video content during its transmission through digital media.However,there are stillmany unresolved challenges.This paper aims to address those challenges by proposing a new technique for detectingmoving objects in digital videos,which can help prove the credibility of video content by detecting any fake objects inserted by hackers.The proposed technique involves using two methods,the H.264 and the extraction color features methods,to embed and extract watermarks in video frames.The study tested the performance of the system against various attacks and found it to be robust.The evaluation was done using different metrics such as Peak-Signal-to-Noise Ratio(PSNR),Mean Squared Error(MSE),Structural Similarity Index Measure(SSIM),Bit Correction Ratio(BCR),and Normalized Correlation.The accuracy of identifying moving objects was high,ranging from 96.3%to 98.7%.The system was also able to embed a fragile watermark with a success rate of over 93.65%and had an average capacity of hiding of 78.67.The reconstructed video frames had high quality with a PSNR of at least 65.45 dB and SSIMof over 0.97,making them imperceptible to the human eye.The system also had an acceptable average time difference(T=1.227/s)compared with other state-of-the-art methods.展开更多
The amount of 3D data stored and transmitted in the Internet of Medical Things(IoMT)is increasing,making protecting these medical data increasingly prominent.However,there are relatively few researches on 3D data wate...The amount of 3D data stored and transmitted in the Internet of Medical Things(IoMT)is increasing,making protecting these medical data increasingly prominent.However,there are relatively few researches on 3D data watermarking.Moreover,due to the particularity of medical data,strict data quality should be considered while protecting data security.To solve the problem,in the field of medical volume data,we proposed a robust watermarking algorithm based on Polar Cosine Transform and 3D-Discrete Cosine Transform(PCT and 3D-DCT).Each slice of the volume data was transformed by PCT to obtain feature row vector,and then the reshaped three-dimensional feature matrix was transformed by 3D-DCT.Based on the contour information of the volume data and the detail information of the inner slice,the visual feature vector was obtained by applying the per-ceptual hash.In addition,the watermark was encrypted by a multi-sensitive initial value Sine and Piecewise linear chaotic Mapping(SPM)system,and embedded as a zero watermark.The key was stored in a third party.Under the same experimental conditions,when the volume data is rotated by 80 degrees,cut 25%along the Z axis,and the JPEG compression quality is 1%,the Normalized Correlation Coefficient(NC)of the extracted watermark is 0.80,0.89,and 1.00 respectively,which are significantly higher than the comparison algorithm.展开更多
Medical images are a critical component of the diagnostic process for clinicians.Although the quality of medical photographs is essential to the accuracy of a physician’s diagnosis,they must be encrypted due to the c...Medical images are a critical component of the diagnostic process for clinicians.Although the quality of medical photographs is essential to the accuracy of a physician’s diagnosis,they must be encrypted due to the characteristics of digital storage and information leakage associated with medical images.Traditional watermark embedding algorithm embeds the watermark information into the medical image,which reduces the quality of the medical image and affects the physicians’judgment of patient diagnosis.In addition,watermarks in this method have weak robustness under high-intensity geometric attacks when the medical image is attacked and the watermarks are destroyed.This paper proposes a novel watermarking algorithm using the convolutional neural networks(CNN)Inception V3 and the discrete cosine transform(DCT)to address above mentioned problems.First,the medical image is input into the Inception V3 network,which has been structured by adjusting parameters,such as the size of the convolution kernels and the typical architecture of the convolution modules.Second,the coefficients extracted from the fully connected layer of the network are transformed by DCT to obtain the feature vector of the medical image.At last,the watermarks are encrypted using the logistic map system and hash function,and the keys are stored by a third party.The encrypted watermarks and the original image features are performed logical operations to realize the embedding of zero-watermark.In the experimental section,multiple watermarking schemes using three different types of watermarks were implemented to verify the effectiveness of the three proposed algorithms.Our NC values for all the images are more than 90%accurate which shows the robustness of the algorithm.Extensive experimental results demonstrate the robustness under both conventional and high-intensity geometric attacks of the proposed algorithm.展开更多
This study presents enhancing images authentication by securing watermarking hidden data via shares generated from counting-based secret sharing.The trustfulness of shares utilised secret-sharing as an applicable priv...This study presents enhancing images authentication by securing watermarking hidden data via shares generated from counting-based secret sharing.The trustfulness of shares utilised secret-sharing as an applicable privacy creation tool for the authentication of real-life complex platforms.This research adjusts embedding the watermarking data over the images by innovative redistribution of shares to be embedded spread over all the images.The anticipated watermarking technique guaranteed to scatter the share bits implanting at different least significant bits of image pixels as boosting up the trust overall authentication practicality.The paper experimentation performance analysis shows that this improved image watermarking authentication(capacity)is averagely better by 33%–67%than other related exclusive-OR oriented and octagon approaches.Interestingly,these measurement improvements did not degrade the robustness and security of the system,inspiring our research for opening novel track of related future counting-based secret-sharing authentication progresses to come.展开更多
The field of medical images has been rapidly evolving since the advent of the digital medical information era.However,medical data is susceptible to leaks and hacks during transmission.This paper proposed a robust mul...The field of medical images has been rapidly evolving since the advent of the digital medical information era.However,medical data is susceptible to leaks and hacks during transmission.This paper proposed a robust multi-watermarking algorithm for medical images based on GoogLeNet transfer learning to protect the privacy of patient data during transmission and storage,as well as to increase the resistance to geometric attacks and the capacity of embedded watermarks of watermarking algorithms.First,a pre-trained GoogLeNet network is used in this paper,based on which the parameters of several previous layers of the network are fixed and the network is fine-tuned for the constructed medical dataset,so that the pre-trained network can further learn the deep convolutional features in the medical dataset,and then the trained network is used to extract the stable feature vectors of medical images.Then,a two-dimensional Henon chaos encryption technique,which is more sensitive to initial values,is used to encrypt multiple different types of watermarked private information.Finally,the feature vector of the image is logically operated with the encrypted multiple watermark information,and the obtained key is stored in a third party,thus achieving zero watermark embedding and blind extraction.The experimental results confirmthe robustness of the algorithm from the perspective ofmultiple types of watermarks,while also demonstrating the successful embedding ofmultiple watermarks for medical images,and show that the algorithm is more resistant to geometric attacks than some conventional watermarking algorithms.展开更多
Few previous Reversible Visible Watermarking(RVW)schemes have both good transparency and watermark visibility.An adaptive RVW scheme that integrates Total Variation and visual perception in Block Truncation Coding(BTC...Few previous Reversible Visible Watermarking(RVW)schemes have both good transparency and watermark visibility.An adaptive RVW scheme that integrates Total Variation and visual perception in Block Truncation Coding(BTC)compressed domain,called TVB-RVW is proposed in this paper.A new mean image estimation method for BTC-compressed images is first developed with the help of Total Variation.Then,a visual perception factor computation model is devised by fusing texture and luminance characteristics.An adaptive watermark embedding strategy is used to embed the visible watermark with the effect of the visual perception factor in the BTC domain.Moreover,a lossless embedding method of the encrypted visible watermark is exploited to deter illegal watermark removal.The visible watermark can be removed since the visual perception factor and the estimated mean image remain unchanged before and after watermark embedding.Extensive experiments validate the superiority of the proposed algorithm over previous RVW schemes in BTC in terms of the visual quality of watermarked images and watermark visibility,and it can achieve a good balance between transparency and watermark visibility.展开更多
Robust watermarking requires finding invariant features under multiple attacks to ensure correct extraction.Deep learning has extremely powerful in extracting features,and watermarking algorithms based on deep learnin...Robust watermarking requires finding invariant features under multiple attacks to ensure correct extraction.Deep learning has extremely powerful in extracting features,and watermarking algorithms based on deep learning have attracted widespread attention.Most existing methods use 3×3 small kernel convolution to extract image features and embed the watermarking.However,the effective perception fields for small kernel convolution are extremely confined,so the pixels that each watermarking can affect are restricted,thus limiting the performance of the watermarking.To address these problems,we propose a watermarking network based on large kernel convolution and adaptive weight assignment for loss functions.It uses large-kernel depth-wise convolution to extract features for learning large-scale image information and subsequently projects the watermarking into a highdimensional space by 1×1 convolution to achieve adaptability in the channel dimension.Subsequently,the modification of the embedded watermarking on the cover image is extended to more pixels.Because the magnitude and convergence rates of each loss function are different,an adaptive loss weight assignment strategy is proposed to make theweights participate in the network training together and adjust theweight dynamically.Further,a high-frequency wavelet loss is proposed,by which the watermarking is restricted to only the low-frequency wavelet sub-bands,thereby enhancing the robustness of watermarking against image compression.The experimental results show that the peak signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR)of the encoded image reaches 40.12,the structural similarity(SSIM)reaches 0.9721,and the watermarking has good robustness against various types of noise.展开更多
With the development of digitalization in healthcare,more and more information is delivered and stored in digital form,facilitating people’s lives significantly.In the meanwhile,privacy leakage and security issues co...With the development of digitalization in healthcare,more and more information is delivered and stored in digital form,facilitating people’s lives significantly.In the meanwhile,privacy leakage and security issues come along with it.Zero watermarking can solve this problem well.To protect the security of medical information and improve the algorithm’s robustness,this paper proposes a robust watermarking algorithm for medical images based on Non-Subsampled Shearlet Transform(NSST)and Schur decomposition.Firstly,the low-frequency subband image of the original medical image is obtained by NSST and chunked.Secondly,the Schur decomposition of low-frequency blocks to get stable values,extracting the maximum absolute value of the diagonal elements of the upper triangle matrix after the Schur decom-position of each low-frequency block and constructing the transition matrix from it.Then,the mean of the matrix is compared to each element’s value,creating a feature matrix by combining perceptual hashing,and selecting 32 bits as the feature sequence.Finally,the feature vector is exclusive OR(XOR)operated with the encrypted watermark information to get the zero watermark and complete registration with a third-party copyright certification center.Experimental data show that the Normalized Correlation(NC)values of watermarks extracted in random carrier medical images are above 0.5,with higher robustness than traditional algorithms,especially against geometric attacks and achieve watermark information invisibility without altering the carrier medical image.展开更多
Image processing networks have gained great success in many fields,and thus the issue of copyright protection for image processing networks hasbecome a focus of attention. Model watermarking techniques are widely used...Image processing networks have gained great success in many fields,and thus the issue of copyright protection for image processing networks hasbecome a focus of attention. Model watermarking techniques are widely usedin model copyright protection, but there are two challenges: (1) designinguniversal trigger sample watermarking for different network models is stilla challenge;(2) existing methods of copyright protection based on trigger swatermarking are difficult to resist forgery attacks. In this work, we propose adual model watermarking framework for copyright protection in image processingnetworks. The trigger sample watermark is embedded in the trainingprocess of the model, which can effectively verify the model copyright. And wedesign a common method for generating trigger sample watermarks based ongenerative adversarial networks, adaptively generating trigger sample watermarksaccording to different models. The spatial watermark is embedded intothe model output. When an attacker steals model copyright using a forgedtrigger sample watermark, which can be correctly extracted to distinguishbetween the piratical and the protected model. The experiments show that theproposed framework has good performance in different image segmentationnetworks of UNET, UNET++, and FCN (fully convolutional network), andeffectively resists forgery attacks.展开更多
Watermarking of digital images is required in diversified applicationsranging from medical imaging to commercial images used over the web.Usually, the copyright information is embossed over the image in the form ofa l...Watermarking of digital images is required in diversified applicationsranging from medical imaging to commercial images used over the web.Usually, the copyright information is embossed over the image in the form ofa logo at the corner or diagonal text in the background. However, this formof visible watermarking is not suitable for a large class of applications. In allsuch cases, a hidden watermark is embedded inside the original image as proofof ownership. A large number of techniques and algorithms are proposedby researchers for invisible watermarking. In this paper, we focus on issuesthat are critical for security aspects in the most common domains like digitalphotography copyrighting, online image stores, etc. The requirements of thisclass of application include robustness (resistance to attack), blindness (directextraction without original image), high embedding capacity, high Peak Signalto Noise Ratio (PSNR), and high Structural Similarity Matrix (SSIM). Mostof these requirements are conflicting, which means that an attempt to maximizeone requirement harms the other. In this paper, a blind type of imagewatermarking scheme is proposed using Lifting Wavelet Transform (LWT)as the baseline. Using this technique, custom binary watermarks in the formof a binary string can be embedded. Hu’s Invariant moments’ coefficientsare used as a key to extract the watermark. A Stochastic variant of theFirefly algorithm (FA) is used for the optimization of the technique. Undera prespecified size of embedding data, high PSNR and SSIM are obtainedusing the Stochastic Gradient variant of the Firefly technique. The simulationis done using Matrix Laboratory (MATLAB) tool and it is shown that theproposed technique outperforms the benchmark techniques of watermarkingconsidering PSNR and SSIM as quality metrics.展开更多
Securing medical data while transmission on the network is required because it is sensitive and life-dependent data.Many methods are used for protection,such as Steganography,Digital Signature,Cryptography,and Waterma...Securing medical data while transmission on the network is required because it is sensitive and life-dependent data.Many methods are used for protection,such as Steganography,Digital Signature,Cryptography,and Watermarking.This paper introduces a novel robust algorithm that combines discrete wavelet transform(DWT),discrete cosine transform(DCT),and singular value decomposition(SVD)digital image-watermarking algorithms.The host image is decomposed using a two-dimensional DWT(2D-DWT)to approximate low-frequency sub-bands in the embedding process.Then the sub-band low-high(LH)is decomposed using 2D-DWT to four new sub-bands.The resulting sub-band low-high(LH1)is decomposed using 2D-DWT to four new sub-bands.Two frequency bands,high-high(HH_(2))and high-low(HL_(2)),are transformed by DCT,and then the SVD is applied to the DCT coefficients.The strongest modified singular values(SVs)vary very little for most attacks,which is an important property of SVD watermarking.The two watermark images are encrypted using two layers of encryption,circular and chaotic encryption techniques,to increase security.The first encrypted watermark is embedded in the S component of the DCT components of the HL_(2)coefficients.The second encrypted watermark is embedded in the S component of the DCT components of the HH2 coefficients.The suggested technique has been tested against various attacks and proven to provide excellent stability and imperceptibility results.展开更多
This study aimed to deal with three challenges:robustness,imperceptibility,and capacity in the image watermarking field.To reach a high capacity,a novel similarity-based edge detection algorithm was developed that fin...This study aimed to deal with three challenges:robustness,imperceptibility,and capacity in the image watermarking field.To reach a high capacity,a novel similarity-based edge detection algorithm was developed that finds more edge points than traditional techniques.The colored watermark image was created by inserting a randomly generated message on the edge points detected by this algorithm.To ensure robustness and imperceptibility,watermark and cover images were combined in the high-frequency subbands using Discrete Wavelet Transform and Singular Value Decomposition.In the watermarking stage,the watermark image was weighted by the adaptive scaling factor calculated by the standard deviation of the similarity image.According to the results,the proposed edge-based color image watermarking technique has achieved high payload capacity,imperceptibility,and robustness to all attacks.In addition,the highest performance values were obtained against rotation attack,to which sufficient robustness has not been reached in the related studies.展开更多
Image authentication techniques have recently received a lot of attention for protecting images against unauthorized access.Due to the wide use of the Internet nowadays,the need to ensure data integrity and authentica...Image authentication techniques have recently received a lot of attention for protecting images against unauthorized access.Due to the wide use of the Internet nowadays,the need to ensure data integrity and authentication increases.Many techniques,such as watermarking and encryption,are used for securing images transmitted via the Internet.The majority of watermarking systems are PC-based,but they are not very portable.Hardwarebased watermarking methods need to be developed to accommodate real-time applications and provide portability.This paper presents hybrid data security techniques using a zero watermarking method to provide copyright protection for the transmitted color images using multi-channel orthogonal Legendre Fourier moments of fractional orders(MFrLFMs)and the advanced encryption standard(AES)algorithm on a low-cost Raspberry Pi.In order to increase embedding robustness,the watermark picture is scrambled using the Arnold method.Zero watermarking is implemented on the Raspberry Pi to produce a real-time ownership verification key.Before sending the ownership verification key and the original image to the monitoring station,we can encrypt the transmitted data with AES for additional security and hide any viewable information.The receiver next verifies the received image’s integrity to confirm its authenticity and that it has not been tampered with.We assessed the suggested algorithm’s resistance to many attacks.The suggested algorithm provides a reasonable degree of robustness while still being perceptible.The proposed method provides improved bit error rate(BER)and normalized correlation(NC)values compared to previous zero watermarking approaches.AES performance analysis is performed to demonstrate its effectiveness.Using a 256×256 image size,it takes only 2 s to apply the zero-watermark algorithm on the Raspberry Pi.展开更多
Transmission of data over the internet has become a critical issue as a result of the advancement in technology, since it is possible for pirates to steal the intellectual property of content owners. This paper presen...Transmission of data over the internet has become a critical issue as a result of the advancement in technology, since it is possible for pirates to steal the intellectual property of content owners. This paper presents a new digital watermarking scheme that combines some operators of the Genetic Algorithm (GA) and the Residue Number (RN) System (RNS) to perform encryption on an image, which is embedded into a cover image for the purposes of watermarking. Thus, an image watermarking scheme uses an encrypted image. The secret image is embedded in decomposed frames of the cover image achieved by applying a three-level Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). This is to ensure that the secret information is not exposed even when there is a successful attack on the cover information. Content creators can prove ownership of the multimedia content by unveiling the secret information in a court of law. The proposed scheme was tested with sample data using MATLAB2022 and the results of the simulation show a great deal of imperceptibility and robustness as compared to similar existing schemes.展开更多
Digital watermarking is used to hide the information inside a signal, which can not be easily extracted by the third party. Its widely used application is copyright protection of digital information. It is different f...Digital watermarking is used to hide the information inside a signal, which can not be easily extracted by the third party. Its widely used application is copyright protection of digital information. It is different from the encryption in the sense that it allows the user to access, view and interpret the signal but protect the ownership of the content. One of the current research areas is to protect digital watermark inside the information so that ownership of the information cannot be claimed by third party. With a lot of information available on various search engines, to protect the ownership of information is a crucial area of research. In latest years, several digital watermarking techniques are presented based on discrete cosine transform (DCT), discrete wavelets transform (DWT) and discrete fourier transforms (DFT). In this paper, we propose an algorithm for digital image watermarking technique based on singular value decomposition;both of the L and U components are explored for watermarking algorithm. This technique refers to the watermark embedding algorithm and watermark extracting algorithm. The experimental results prove that the quality of the watermarked image is excellent and there is strong resistant against many geometrical attacks.展开更多
A digital watermarking technique is a multi-scientific discipline which is developed rapidly in last several years for digital content protection,such as copyright protection,authentication protection,source tracing,e...A digital watermarking technique is a multi-scientific discipline which is developed rapidly in last several years for digital content protection,such as copyright protection,authentication protection,source tracing,etc. However,in realistic scenarios,the digital watermarking system faces significant secure issues,for example,the attackers want to remove,detect,or embed illegal watermark signals. Therefore,the aim of this contribution is to illustrate recent results of robust and secure watermarking to the signal processing community,and highlight both benefits and still open issues. Specifically,this paper is intended to introduce the concept of secure and robust digital watermarking system,and provide with problems and their countermeasures. First of all,the classic watermark model and cryptosystem will be reviewed and then,the concept of secure and robust digital watermarking system will be described. Next,the watermark attack will be classified and described. Finally,some countermeasures that can help to improve secure and robustness are considered. Index TermsCountermeasures,digital watermarking system,robust,security,watermark attacks.展开更多
基金the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant 2021M701838the Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province of China under Grants 621MS042 and 622MS067the Hainan Medical University Teaching Achievement Award Cultivation under Grant HYjcpx202209.
文摘Watermarks can provide reliable and secure copyright protection for optical coherence tomography(OCT)fundus images.The effective image segmentation is helpful for promoting OCT image watermarking.However,OCT images have a large amount of low-quality data,which seriously affects the performance of segmentationmethods.Therefore,this paper proposes an effective segmentation method for OCT fundus image watermarking using a rough convolutional neural network(RCNN).First,the rough-set-based feature discretization module is designed to preprocess the input data.Second,a dual attention mechanism for feature channels and spatial regions in the CNN is added to enable the model to adaptively select important information for fusion.Finally,the refinement module for enhancing the extraction power of multi-scale information is added to improve the edge accuracy in segmentation.RCNN is compared with CE-Net and MultiResUNet on 83 gold standard 3D retinal OCT data samples.The average dice similarly coefficient(DSC)obtained by RCNN is 6%higher than that of CE-Net.The average 95 percent Hausdorff distance(95HD)and average symmetric surface distance(ASD)obtained by RCNN are 32.4%and 33.3%lower than those of MultiResUNet,respectively.We also evaluate the effect of feature discretization,as well as analyze the initial learning rate of RCNN and conduct ablation experiments with the four different models.The experimental results indicate that our method can improve the segmentation accuracy of OCT fundus images,providing strong support for its application in medical image watermarking.
文摘Video watermarking plays a crucial role in protecting intellectual property rights and ensuring content authenticity.This study delves into the integration of Galois Field(GF)multiplication tables,especially GF(2^(4)),and their interaction with distinct irreducible polynomials.The primary aim is to enhance watermarking techniques for achieving imperceptibility,robustness,and efficient execution time.The research employs scene selection and adaptive thresholding techniques to streamline the watermarking process.Scene selection is used strategically to embed watermarks in the most vital frames of the video,while adaptive thresholding methods ensure that the watermarking process adheres to imperceptibility criteria,maintaining the video's visual quality.Concurrently,careful consideration is given to execution time,crucial in real-world scenarios,to balance efficiency and efficacy.The Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio(PSNR)serves as a pivotal metric to gauge the watermark's imperceptibility and video quality.The study explores various irreducible polynomials,navigating the trade-offs between computational efficiency and watermark imperceptibility.In parallel,the study pays careful attention to the execution time,a paramount consideration in real-world scenarios,to strike a balance between efficiency and efficacy.This comprehensive analysis provides valuable insights into the interplay of GF multiplication tables,diverse irreducible polynomials,scene selection,adaptive thresholding,imperceptibility,and execution time.The evaluation of the proposed algorithm's robustness was conducted using PSNR and NC metrics,and it was subjected to assessment under the impact of five distinct attack scenarios.These findings contribute to the development of watermarking strategies that balance imperceptibility,robustness,and processing efficiency,enhancing the field's practicality and effectiveness.
基金supported by the Yayasan Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Grants,YUTP-PRG(015PBC-027)YUTP-FRG(015LC0-311),Hilmi Hasan,www.utp.edu.my.
文摘Medical imaging plays a key role within modern hospital management systems for diagnostic purposes.Compression methodologies are extensively employed to mitigate storage demands and enhance transmission speed,all while upholding image quality.Moreover,an increasing number of hospitals are embracing cloud computing for patient data storage,necessitating meticulous scrutiny of server security and privacy protocols.Nevertheless,considering the widespread availability of multimedia tools,the preservation of digital data integrity surpasses the significance of compression alone.In response to this concern,we propose a secure storage and transmission solution for compressed medical image sequences,such as ultrasound images,utilizing a motion vector watermarking scheme.The watermark is generated employing an error-correcting code known as Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem(BCH)and is subsequently embedded into the compressed sequence via block-based motion vectors.In the process of watermark embedding,motion vectors are selected based on their magnitude and phase angle.When embedding watermarks,no specific spatial area,such as a region of interest(ROI),is used in the images.The embedding of watermark bits is dependent on motion vectors.Although reversible watermarking allows the restoration of the original image sequences,we use the irreversible watermarking method.The reason for this is that the use of reversible watermarks may impede the claims of ownership and legal rights.The restoration of original data or images may call into question ownership or other legal claims.The peak signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR)and structural similarity index(SSIM)serve as metrics for evaluating the watermarked image quality.Across all images,the PSNR value exceeds 46 dB,and the SSIM value exceeds 0.92.Experimental results substantiate the efficacy of the proposed technique in preserving data integrity.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62061014)the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning province of China(Grant No.2020-MS-274).
文摘Security during remote transmission has been an important concern for researchers in recent years.In this paper,a hierarchical encryption multi-image encryption scheme for people with different security levels is designed,and a multiimage encryption(MIE)algorithm with row and column confusion and closed-loop bi-directional diffusion is adopted in the paper.While ensuring secure communication of medical image information,people with different security levels have different levels of decryption keys,and differentiated visual effects can be obtained by using the strong sensitivity of chaotic keys.The highest security level can obtain decrypted images without watermarks,and at the same time,patient information and copyright attribution can be verified by obtaining watermark images.The experimental results show that the scheme is sufficiently secure as an MIE scheme with visualized differences and the encryption and decryption efficiency is significantly improved compared to other works.
文摘The transmission of video content over a network raises various issues relating to copyright authenticity,ethics,legality,and privacy.The protection of copyrighted video content is a significant issue in the video industry,and it is essential to find effective solutions to prevent tampering and modification of digital video content during its transmission through digital media.However,there are stillmany unresolved challenges.This paper aims to address those challenges by proposing a new technique for detectingmoving objects in digital videos,which can help prove the credibility of video content by detecting any fake objects inserted by hackers.The proposed technique involves using two methods,the H.264 and the extraction color features methods,to embed and extract watermarks in video frames.The study tested the performance of the system against various attacks and found it to be robust.The evaluation was done using different metrics such as Peak-Signal-to-Noise Ratio(PSNR),Mean Squared Error(MSE),Structural Similarity Index Measure(SSIM),Bit Correction Ratio(BCR),and Normalized Correlation.The accuracy of identifying moving objects was high,ranging from 96.3%to 98.7%.The system was also able to embed a fragile watermark with a success rate of over 93.65%and had an average capacity of hiding of 78.67.The reconstructed video frames had high quality with a PSNR of at least 65.45 dB and SSIMof over 0.97,making them imperceptible to the human eye.The system also had an acceptable average time difference(T=1.227/s)compared with other state-of-the-art methods.
基金supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 62063004the Key Research Project of Hainan Province under Grant ZDYF2021SHFZ093+1 种基金the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 2019RC018 and 619QN246the postdoctor research from Zhejiang Province under Grant ZJ2021028.
文摘The amount of 3D data stored and transmitted in the Internet of Medical Things(IoMT)is increasing,making protecting these medical data increasingly prominent.However,there are relatively few researches on 3D data watermarking.Moreover,due to the particularity of medical data,strict data quality should be considered while protecting data security.To solve the problem,in the field of medical volume data,we proposed a robust watermarking algorithm based on Polar Cosine Transform and 3D-Discrete Cosine Transform(PCT and 3D-DCT).Each slice of the volume data was transformed by PCT to obtain feature row vector,and then the reshaped three-dimensional feature matrix was transformed by 3D-DCT.Based on the contour information of the volume data and the detail information of the inner slice,the visual feature vector was obtained by applying the per-ceptual hash.In addition,the watermark was encrypted by a multi-sensitive initial value Sine and Piecewise linear chaotic Mapping(SPM)system,and embedded as a zero watermark.The key was stored in a third party.Under the same experimental conditions,when the volume data is rotated by 80 degrees,cut 25%along the Z axis,and the JPEG compression quality is 1%,the Normalized Correlation Coefficient(NC)of the extracted watermark is 0.80,0.89,and 1.00 respectively,which are significantly higher than the comparison algorithm.
基金supported in part by Key Research Project of Hainan Province under Grant ZDYF2021SHFZ093the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 62063004 and 62162022+2 种基金the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 2019RC018,521QN206 and 619QN249the Major Scientific Project of Zhejiang Lab 2020ND8AD01the Scientific Research Foundation for Hainan University(No.KYQD(ZR)-21013).
文摘Medical images are a critical component of the diagnostic process for clinicians.Although the quality of medical photographs is essential to the accuracy of a physician’s diagnosis,they must be encrypted due to the characteristics of digital storage and information leakage associated with medical images.Traditional watermark embedding algorithm embeds the watermark information into the medical image,which reduces the quality of the medical image and affects the physicians’judgment of patient diagnosis.In addition,watermarks in this method have weak robustness under high-intensity geometric attacks when the medical image is attacked and the watermarks are destroyed.This paper proposes a novel watermarking algorithm using the convolutional neural networks(CNN)Inception V3 and the discrete cosine transform(DCT)to address above mentioned problems.First,the medical image is input into the Inception V3 network,which has been structured by adjusting parameters,such as the size of the convolution kernels and the typical architecture of the convolution modules.Second,the coefficients extracted from the fully connected layer of the network are transformed by DCT to obtain the feature vector of the medical image.At last,the watermarks are encrypted using the logistic map system and hash function,and the keys are stored by a third party.The encrypted watermarks and the original image features are performed logical operations to realize the embedding of zero-watermark.In the experimental section,multiple watermarking schemes using three different types of watermarks were implemented to verify the effectiveness of the three proposed algorithms.Our NC values for all the images are more than 90%accurate which shows the robustness of the algorithm.Extensive experimental results demonstrate the robustness under both conventional and high-intensity geometric attacks of the proposed algorithm.
文摘This study presents enhancing images authentication by securing watermarking hidden data via shares generated from counting-based secret sharing.The trustfulness of shares utilised secret-sharing as an applicable privacy creation tool for the authentication of real-life complex platforms.This research adjusts embedding the watermarking data over the images by innovative redistribution of shares to be embedded spread over all the images.The anticipated watermarking technique guaranteed to scatter the share bits implanting at different least significant bits of image pixels as boosting up the trust overall authentication practicality.The paper experimentation performance analysis shows that this improved image watermarking authentication(capacity)is averagely better by 33%–67%than other related exclusive-OR oriented and octagon approaches.Interestingly,these measurement improvements did not degrade the robustness and security of the system,inspiring our research for opening novel track of related future counting-based secret-sharing authentication progresses to come.
基金supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 62063004the Key Research Project of Hainan Province under Grant ZDYF2021SHF Z093+1 种基金the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 2019RC018 and 619QN246the postdoctor research from Zhejiang Province under Grant ZJ2021028.
文摘The field of medical images has been rapidly evolving since the advent of the digital medical information era.However,medical data is susceptible to leaks and hacks during transmission.This paper proposed a robust multi-watermarking algorithm for medical images based on GoogLeNet transfer learning to protect the privacy of patient data during transmission and storage,as well as to increase the resistance to geometric attacks and the capacity of embedded watermarks of watermarking algorithms.First,a pre-trained GoogLeNet network is used in this paper,based on which the parameters of several previous layers of the network are fixed and the network is fine-tuned for the constructed medical dataset,so that the pre-trained network can further learn the deep convolutional features in the medical dataset,and then the trained network is used to extract the stable feature vectors of medical images.Then,a two-dimensional Henon chaos encryption technique,which is more sensitive to initial values,is used to encrypt multiple different types of watermarked private information.Finally,the feature vector of the image is logically operated with the encrypted multiple watermark information,and the obtained key is stored in a third party,thus achieving zero watermark embedding and blind extraction.The experimental results confirmthe robustness of the algorithm from the perspective ofmultiple types of watermarks,while also demonstrating the successful embedding ofmultiple watermarks for medical images,and show that the algorithm is more resistant to geometric attacks than some conventional watermarking algorithms.
基金This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61872408the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province under Grant 2020JJ4238+1 种基金the Social Science Foundation of Hunan Province under Grant 19YBA098the Research Fund of Hunan provincial key laboratory of informationization technology for basic education under Grant 2015TP1017.
文摘Few previous Reversible Visible Watermarking(RVW)schemes have both good transparency and watermark visibility.An adaptive RVW scheme that integrates Total Variation and visual perception in Block Truncation Coding(BTC)compressed domain,called TVB-RVW is proposed in this paper.A new mean image estimation method for BTC-compressed images is first developed with the help of Total Variation.Then,a visual perception factor computation model is devised by fusing texture and luminance characteristics.An adaptive watermark embedding strategy is used to embed the visible watermark with the effect of the visual perception factor in the BTC domain.Moreover,a lossless embedding method of the encrypted visible watermark is exploited to deter illegal watermark removal.The visible watermark can be removed since the visual perception factor and the estimated mean image remain unchanged before and after watermark embedding.Extensive experiments validate the superiority of the proposed algorithm over previous RVW schemes in BTC in terms of the visual quality of watermarked images and watermark visibility,and it can achieve a good balance between transparency and watermark visibility.
基金supported,in part,by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under grant numbers 62272236in part,by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under grant numbers BK20201136,BK20191401in part,by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)fund.
文摘Robust watermarking requires finding invariant features under multiple attacks to ensure correct extraction.Deep learning has extremely powerful in extracting features,and watermarking algorithms based on deep learning have attracted widespread attention.Most existing methods use 3×3 small kernel convolution to extract image features and embed the watermarking.However,the effective perception fields for small kernel convolution are extremely confined,so the pixels that each watermarking can affect are restricted,thus limiting the performance of the watermarking.To address these problems,we propose a watermarking network based on large kernel convolution and adaptive weight assignment for loss functions.It uses large-kernel depth-wise convolution to extract features for learning large-scale image information and subsequently projects the watermarking into a highdimensional space by 1×1 convolution to achieve adaptability in the channel dimension.Subsequently,the modification of the embedded watermarking on the cover image is extended to more pixels.Because the magnitude and convergence rates of each loss function are different,an adaptive loss weight assignment strategy is proposed to make theweights participate in the network training together and adjust theweight dynamically.Further,a high-frequency wavelet loss is proposed,by which the watermarking is restricted to only the low-frequency wavelet sub-bands,thereby enhancing the robustness of watermarking against image compression.The experimental results show that the peak signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR)of the encoded image reaches 40.12,the structural similarity(SSIM)reaches 0.9721,and the watermarking has good robustness against various types of noise.
基金supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 62063004the Key Research Project of Hainan Province under Grant ZDYF2021SHFZ093+1 种基金the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 2019RC018 and 619QN246the postdoctoral research from Zhejiang Province under Grant ZJ2021028.
文摘With the development of digitalization in healthcare,more and more information is delivered and stored in digital form,facilitating people’s lives significantly.In the meanwhile,privacy leakage and security issues come along with it.Zero watermarking can solve this problem well.To protect the security of medical information and improve the algorithm’s robustness,this paper proposes a robust watermarking algorithm for medical images based on Non-Subsampled Shearlet Transform(NSST)and Schur decomposition.Firstly,the low-frequency subband image of the original medical image is obtained by NSST and chunked.Secondly,the Schur decomposition of low-frequency blocks to get stable values,extracting the maximum absolute value of the diagonal elements of the upper triangle matrix after the Schur decom-position of each low-frequency block and constructing the transition matrix from it.Then,the mean of the matrix is compared to each element’s value,creating a feature matrix by combining perceptual hashing,and selecting 32 bits as the feature sequence.Finally,the feature vector is exclusive OR(XOR)operated with the encrypted watermark information to get the zero watermark and complete registration with a third-party copyright certification center.Experimental data show that the Normalized Correlation(NC)values of watermarks extracted in random carrier medical images are above 0.5,with higher robustness than traditional algorithms,especially against geometric attacks and achieve watermark information invisibility without altering the carrier medical image.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grants U1836208,by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)fundby the Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology (CICAEET)fund,China.
文摘Image processing networks have gained great success in many fields,and thus the issue of copyright protection for image processing networks hasbecome a focus of attention. Model watermarking techniques are widely usedin model copyright protection, but there are two challenges: (1) designinguniversal trigger sample watermarking for different network models is stilla challenge;(2) existing methods of copyright protection based on trigger swatermarking are difficult to resist forgery attacks. In this work, we propose adual model watermarking framework for copyright protection in image processingnetworks. The trigger sample watermark is embedded in the trainingprocess of the model, which can effectively verify the model copyright. And wedesign a common method for generating trigger sample watermarks based ongenerative adversarial networks, adaptively generating trigger sample watermarksaccording to different models. The spatial watermark is embedded intothe model output. When an attacker steals model copyright using a forgedtrigger sample watermark, which can be correctly extracted to distinguishbetween the piratical and the protected model. The experiments show that theproposed framework has good performance in different image segmentationnetworks of UNET, UNET++, and FCN (fully convolutional network), andeffectively resists forgery attacks.
基金funded by Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project Number (PNURSP2022R235)Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
文摘Watermarking of digital images is required in diversified applicationsranging from medical imaging to commercial images used over the web.Usually, the copyright information is embossed over the image in the form ofa logo at the corner or diagonal text in the background. However, this formof visible watermarking is not suitable for a large class of applications. In allsuch cases, a hidden watermark is embedded inside the original image as proofof ownership. A large number of techniques and algorithms are proposedby researchers for invisible watermarking. In this paper, we focus on issuesthat are critical for security aspects in the most common domains like digitalphotography copyrighting, online image stores, etc. The requirements of thisclass of application include robustness (resistance to attack), blindness (directextraction without original image), high embedding capacity, high Peak Signalto Noise Ratio (PSNR), and high Structural Similarity Matrix (SSIM). Mostof these requirements are conflicting, which means that an attempt to maximizeone requirement harms the other. In this paper, a blind type of imagewatermarking scheme is proposed using Lifting Wavelet Transform (LWT)as the baseline. Using this technique, custom binary watermarks in the formof a binary string can be embedded. Hu’s Invariant moments’ coefficientsare used as a key to extract the watermark. A Stochastic variant of theFirefly algorithm (FA) is used for the optimization of the technique. Undera prespecified size of embedding data, high PSNR and SSIM are obtainedusing the Stochastic Gradient variant of the Firefly technique. The simulationis done using Matrix Laboratory (MATLAB) tool and it is shown that theproposed technique outperforms the benchmark techniques of watermarkingconsidering PSNR and SSIM as quality metrics.
基金This work was supported by Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project Number(PNURSP2022R308)Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
文摘Securing medical data while transmission on the network is required because it is sensitive and life-dependent data.Many methods are used for protection,such as Steganography,Digital Signature,Cryptography,and Watermarking.This paper introduces a novel robust algorithm that combines discrete wavelet transform(DWT),discrete cosine transform(DCT),and singular value decomposition(SVD)digital image-watermarking algorithms.The host image is decomposed using a two-dimensional DWT(2D-DWT)to approximate low-frequency sub-bands in the embedding process.Then the sub-band low-high(LH)is decomposed using 2D-DWT to four new sub-bands.The resulting sub-band low-high(LH1)is decomposed using 2D-DWT to four new sub-bands.Two frequency bands,high-high(HH_(2))and high-low(HL_(2)),are transformed by DCT,and then the SVD is applied to the DCT coefficients.The strongest modified singular values(SVs)vary very little for most attacks,which is an important property of SVD watermarking.The two watermark images are encrypted using two layers of encryption,circular and chaotic encryption techniques,to increase security.The first encrypted watermark is embedded in the S component of the DCT components of the HL_(2)coefficients.The second encrypted watermark is embedded in the S component of the DCT components of the HH2 coefficients.The suggested technique has been tested against various attacks and proven to provide excellent stability and imperceptibility results.
文摘This study aimed to deal with three challenges:robustness,imperceptibility,and capacity in the image watermarking field.To reach a high capacity,a novel similarity-based edge detection algorithm was developed that finds more edge points than traditional techniques.The colored watermark image was created by inserting a randomly generated message on the edge points detected by this algorithm.To ensure robustness and imperceptibility,watermark and cover images were combined in the high-frequency subbands using Discrete Wavelet Transform and Singular Value Decomposition.In the watermarking stage,the watermark image was weighted by the adaptive scaling factor calculated by the standard deviation of the similarity image.According to the results,the proposed edge-based color image watermarking technique has achieved high payload capacity,imperceptibility,and robustness to all attacks.In addition,the highest performance values were obtained against rotation attack,to which sufficient robustness has not been reached in the related studies.
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文摘Image authentication techniques have recently received a lot of attention for protecting images against unauthorized access.Due to the wide use of the Internet nowadays,the need to ensure data integrity and authentication increases.Many techniques,such as watermarking and encryption,are used for securing images transmitted via the Internet.The majority of watermarking systems are PC-based,but they are not very portable.Hardwarebased watermarking methods need to be developed to accommodate real-time applications and provide portability.This paper presents hybrid data security techniques using a zero watermarking method to provide copyright protection for the transmitted color images using multi-channel orthogonal Legendre Fourier moments of fractional orders(MFrLFMs)and the advanced encryption standard(AES)algorithm on a low-cost Raspberry Pi.In order to increase embedding robustness,the watermark picture is scrambled using the Arnold method.Zero watermarking is implemented on the Raspberry Pi to produce a real-time ownership verification key.Before sending the ownership verification key and the original image to the monitoring station,we can encrypt the transmitted data with AES for additional security and hide any viewable information.The receiver next verifies the received image’s integrity to confirm its authenticity and that it has not been tampered with.We assessed the suggested algorithm’s resistance to many attacks.The suggested algorithm provides a reasonable degree of robustness while still being perceptible.The proposed method provides improved bit error rate(BER)and normalized correlation(NC)values compared to previous zero watermarking approaches.AES performance analysis is performed to demonstrate its effectiveness.Using a 256×256 image size,it takes only 2 s to apply the zero-watermark algorithm on the Raspberry Pi.
文摘Transmission of data over the internet has become a critical issue as a result of the advancement in technology, since it is possible for pirates to steal the intellectual property of content owners. This paper presents a new digital watermarking scheme that combines some operators of the Genetic Algorithm (GA) and the Residue Number (RN) System (RNS) to perform encryption on an image, which is embedded into a cover image for the purposes of watermarking. Thus, an image watermarking scheme uses an encrypted image. The secret image is embedded in decomposed frames of the cover image achieved by applying a three-level Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). This is to ensure that the secret information is not exposed even when there is a successful attack on the cover information. Content creators can prove ownership of the multimedia content by unveiling the secret information in a court of law. The proposed scheme was tested with sample data using MATLAB2022 and the results of the simulation show a great deal of imperceptibility and robustness as compared to similar existing schemes.
文摘Digital watermarking is used to hide the information inside a signal, which can not be easily extracted by the third party. Its widely used application is copyright protection of digital information. It is different from the encryption in the sense that it allows the user to access, view and interpret the signal but protect the ownership of the content. One of the current research areas is to protect digital watermark inside the information so that ownership of the information cannot be claimed by third party. With a lot of information available on various search engines, to protect the ownership of information is a crucial area of research. In latest years, several digital watermarking techniques are presented based on discrete cosine transform (DCT), discrete wavelets transform (DWT) and discrete fourier transforms (DFT). In this paper, we propose an algorithm for digital image watermarking technique based on singular value decomposition;both of the L and U components are explored for watermarking algorithm. This technique refers to the watermark embedding algorithm and watermark extracting algorithm. The experimental results prove that the quality of the watermarked image is excellent and there is strong resistant against many geometrical attacks.
基金supported by the Jiangnan University of Science&Technology Young Scholar under Grant No.JUSRP11462
文摘A digital watermarking technique is a multi-scientific discipline which is developed rapidly in last several years for digital content protection,such as copyright protection,authentication protection,source tracing,etc. However,in realistic scenarios,the digital watermarking system faces significant secure issues,for example,the attackers want to remove,detect,or embed illegal watermark signals. Therefore,the aim of this contribution is to illustrate recent results of robust and secure watermarking to the signal processing community,and highlight both benefits and still open issues. Specifically,this paper is intended to introduce the concept of secure and robust digital watermarking system,and provide with problems and their countermeasures. First of all,the classic watermark model and cryptosystem will be reviewed and then,the concept of secure and robust digital watermarking system will be described. Next,the watermark attack will be classified and described. Finally,some countermeasures that can help to improve secure and robustness are considered. Index TermsCountermeasures,digital watermarking system,robust,security,watermark attacks.
