Geometric correction code‐based robust image watermarking
Abstract Digital image watermarking is one of the effective schemes to protect the copyrights of still images. However, the existing watermarking schemes are still not robust enough to the common geometric transformation attacks such as arbitrary rotation, scaling and shifting with desirable hiding...
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| author | Zhili Zhou Jianyu Zhu Yuecheng Su Meimin Wang Xingming Sun |
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| description | Abstract Digital image watermarking is one of the effective schemes to protect the copyrights of still images. However, the existing watermarking schemes are still not robust enough to the common geometric transformation attacks such as arbitrary rotation, scaling and shifting with desirable hiding capacity. To address this issue, we propose a robust watermarking scheme based on geometric correction codes (GCCs). In this scheme, the watermark and pre‐set GCCs are combined and embedded into a cover image to obtain the watermarked image. At the stage of watermark extraction, the watermarked image, under a variety of geometric transformation attacks, can be geometrically corrected by minimising the difference between the extracted and the original GCCs, then the watermark is extracted from the watermarked image. The experiments demonstrate that, compared to the typical watermarking schemes, the proposed scheme achieves much higher robustness to the common geometric transformation attacks and comparable invisibility with the same embedding capacity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-41e0437a5356458790204a14d44779502023-11-05T03:33:28ZengWileyIET Image Processing1751-96591751-96672023-11-0117133660366910.1049/ipr2.12143Geometric correction code‐based robust image watermarkingZhili Zhou0Jianyu Zhu1Yuecheng Su2Meimin Wang3Xingming Sun4Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring & School of Computer and Software Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Nanjing ChinaJiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring & School of Computer and Software Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Nanjing ChinaJiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring & School of Computer and Software Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Nanjing ChinaJiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring & School of Computer and Software Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Nanjing ChinaJiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring & School of Computer and Software Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Nanjing ChinaAbstract Digital image watermarking is one of the effective schemes to protect the copyrights of still images. However, the existing watermarking schemes are still not robust enough to the common geometric transformation attacks such as arbitrary rotation, scaling and shifting with desirable hiding capacity. To address this issue, we propose a robust watermarking scheme based on geometric correction codes (GCCs). In this scheme, the watermark and pre‐set GCCs are combined and embedded into a cover image to obtain the watermarked image. At the stage of watermark extraction, the watermarked image, under a variety of geometric transformation attacks, can be geometrically corrected by minimising the difference between the extracted and the original GCCs, then the watermark is extracted from the watermarked image. The experiments demonstrate that, compared to the typical watermarking schemes, the proposed scheme achieves much higher robustness to the common geometric transformation attacks and comparable invisibility with the same embedding capacity.https://doi.org/10.1049/ipr2.12143 |
| spellingShingle | Zhili Zhou Jianyu Zhu Yuecheng Su Meimin Wang Xingming Sun Geometric correction code‐based robust image watermarking IET Image Processing |
| title | Geometric correction code‐based robust image watermarking |
| title_full | Geometric correction code‐based robust image watermarking |
| title_fullStr | Geometric correction code‐based robust image watermarking |
| title_full_unstemmed | Geometric correction code‐based robust image watermarking |
| title_short | Geometric correction code‐based robust image watermarking |
| title_sort | geometric correction code based robust image watermarking |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1049/ipr2.12143 |
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