Efficient large invisible color watermark embedding using conditional deep autoencoder model for medical applications

The widespread availability of the internet, in conjunction with very low-cost digital recording and storage devices, has ushered in an age in which the reproduction, illegal use, and malicious dissemination of digital information have become much more straightforward. Authentication of multimedia m...

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Main Authors: Konka Kishan, B. Vijay Kumar
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-10-01
Series:Measurement: Sensors
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665917423001861
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description The widespread availability of the internet, in conjunction with very low-cost digital recording and storage devices, has ushered in an age in which the reproduction, illegal use, and malicious dissemination of digital information have become much more straightforward. Authentication of multimedia materials has garnered a lot of interest in recent days as a means of preventing illegal usage, theft, and misrepresentation of the content. Invisible watermarking tries to hide information in a medium in order to demonstrate ownership, integrity, or to hide a secret message. The goal of invisible watermarking is to hide the watermark and extract it without making it evident that the cover image is watermarked. This paper presents an invisible watermarking technique that can hide large color water marks in the cover media. The proposed model uses a Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) to encode the watermark into the cover image. The watermarked image is then decoded at the receiver to extract the watermark. Unlike the conventional watermarking techniques which hide a simple, small black and white image as watermark, the proposed model can embed large full color images as watermarks into the cover images. This makes the proposed model superior to the existing models by hiding large watermarks into the color images. The stego images produced a high PSNR greater than 40 for different watermarks and the images are visually indistinct from the original cover images.
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spelling doaj.art-31d8af18650f4a04ac834b02d4ec02ea2023-09-17T04:57:23ZengElsevierMeasurement: Sensors2665-91742023-10-0129100850Efficient large invisible color watermark embedding using conditional deep autoencoder model for medical applicationsKonka Kishan0B. Vijay Kumar1Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, R&D Centre, Kukatpally, Hyderabad, Telangana 500085, India; Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology, Himayat Sagar Rd, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500075, India; Corresponding author. Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology, Himayat Sagar Rd, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500075, India.Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology, Himayat Sagar Rd, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500075, IndiaThe widespread availability of the internet, in conjunction with very low-cost digital recording and storage devices, has ushered in an age in which the reproduction, illegal use, and malicious dissemination of digital information have become much more straightforward. Authentication of multimedia materials has garnered a lot of interest in recent days as a means of preventing illegal usage, theft, and misrepresentation of the content. Invisible watermarking tries to hide information in a medium in order to demonstrate ownership, integrity, or to hide a secret message. The goal of invisible watermarking is to hide the watermark and extract it without making it evident that the cover image is watermarked. This paper presents an invisible watermarking technique that can hide large color water marks in the cover media. The proposed model uses a Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) to encode the watermark into the cover image. The watermarked image is then decoded at the receiver to extract the watermark. Unlike the conventional watermarking techniques which hide a simple, small black and white image as watermark, the proposed model can embed large full color images as watermarks into the cover images. This makes the proposed model superior to the existing models by hiding large watermarks into the color images. The stego images produced a high PSNR greater than 40 for different watermarks and the images are visually indistinct from the original cover images.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665917423001861AutoencoderColor watermarkCover imageDecoderEncoderInvisible watermarking
spellingShingle Konka Kishan
B. Vijay Kumar
Efficient large invisible color watermark embedding using conditional deep autoencoder model for medical applications
Measurement: Sensors
Autoencoder
Color watermark
Cover image
Decoder
Encoder
Invisible watermarking
title Efficient large invisible color watermark embedding using conditional deep autoencoder model for medical applications
title_full Efficient large invisible color watermark embedding using conditional deep autoencoder model for medical applications
title_fullStr Efficient large invisible color watermark embedding using conditional deep autoencoder model for medical applications
title_full_unstemmed Efficient large invisible color watermark embedding using conditional deep autoencoder model for medical applications
title_short Efficient large invisible color watermark embedding using conditional deep autoencoder model for medical applications
title_sort efficient large invisible color watermark embedding using conditional deep autoencoder model for medical applications
topic Autoencoder
Color watermark
Cover image
Decoder
Encoder
Invisible watermarking
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665917423001861
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