Fragile Watermarking for Image Authentication Using the Characteristic of SVD

Digital image authentication has become a hot topic in the last few years. In this paper, a pixel-based fragile watermarking method is presented for image tamper identification and localization. By analyzing the left and right singular matrices of SVD, it is found that the matrix product between the...

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Main Authors: Heng Zhang, Chengyou Wang, Xiao Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-02-01
Series:Algorithms
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/10/1/27
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description Digital image authentication has become a hot topic in the last few years. In this paper, a pixel-based fragile watermarking method is presented for image tamper identification and localization. By analyzing the left and right singular matrices of SVD, it is found that the matrix product between the first column of the left singular matrix and the transposition of the first column in the right singular matrix is closely related to the image texture features. Based on this characteristic, a binary watermark consisting of image texture information is generated and inserted into the least significant bit (LSB) of the original host image. To improve the security of the presented algorithm, the Arnold transform is applied twice in the watermark embedding process. Experimental results indicate that the proposed watermarking algorithm has high security and perceptual invisibility. Moreover, it can detect and locate the tampered region effectively for various malicious attacks.
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spelling doaj.art-2c5878bba26541f8ae509e34bf7bb6262022-12-21T19:42:00ZengMDPI AGAlgorithms1999-48932017-02-011012710.3390/a10010027a10010027Fragile Watermarking for Image Authentication Using the Characteristic of SVDHeng Zhang0Chengyou Wang1Xiao Zhou2School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, ChinaSchool of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, ChinaSchool of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, ChinaDigital image authentication has become a hot topic in the last few years. In this paper, a pixel-based fragile watermarking method is presented for image tamper identification and localization. By analyzing the left and right singular matrices of SVD, it is found that the matrix product between the first column of the left singular matrix and the transposition of the first column in the right singular matrix is closely related to the image texture features. Based on this characteristic, a binary watermark consisting of image texture information is generated and inserted into the least significant bit (LSB) of the original host image. To improve the security of the presented algorithm, the Arnold transform is applied twice in the watermark embedding process. Experimental results indicate that the proposed watermarking algorithm has high security and perceptual invisibility. Moreover, it can detect and locate the tampered region effectively for various malicious attacks.http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/10/1/27fragile watermarkingimage authenticationsingular value decomposition (SVD)Arnold transform
spellingShingle Heng Zhang
Chengyou Wang
Xiao Zhou
Fragile Watermarking for Image Authentication Using the Characteristic of SVD
Algorithms
fragile watermarking
image authentication
singular value decomposition (SVD)
Arnold transform
title Fragile Watermarking for Image Authentication Using the Characteristic of SVD
title_full Fragile Watermarking for Image Authentication Using the Characteristic of SVD
title_fullStr Fragile Watermarking for Image Authentication Using the Characteristic of SVD
title_full_unstemmed Fragile Watermarking for Image Authentication Using the Characteristic of SVD
title_short Fragile Watermarking for Image Authentication Using the Characteristic of SVD
title_sort fragile watermarking for image authentication using the characteristic of svd
topic fragile watermarking
image authentication
singular value decomposition (SVD)
Arnold transform
url http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/10/1/27
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