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Digital Image Watermarking
INTRODUCTION
The development of effective digital image copyright protection methods have recently become an urgent and necessary requirement in the multimedia industry due to the ever-increasing unauthorized manipulation and reproduction of original digital objects. The new technology of digital watermarking has been advocated by many specialists as the best method to such multimedia copyright protection problem. Its expected that digital watermarking will have a wide-span of practical applications such as digital cameras, medical imaging, image databases, and video-on-demand systems, among many others.In order for a digital watermarking method to be effective it should be imperceptible, and robust to common image manipulations like compression, filtering, rotation, scaling cropping, collusion attacks among many other digital signal processing operations. Current digital image watermarking techniques can be grouped into two major classes: spatial-domain and frequency-domain watermarking techniques. Compared to spatial domain techniques, frequency-domain watermarking techniques proved to be more effective with respect to achieving the imperceptibility and robustness requirements of digital watermarking algorithms. Commonly used frequency-domain transforms include the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). However, DWT has been used in digital image watermarking more frequently due to its excellent spatial localization and multi-resolution characteristics,which are similar to the theoretical models of the human visual system. Further performance improvements in DWT-based digital image watermarking algorithms could be obtained by combining DWT with DCT. The idea of applying two transform is based on the fact that combined transforms could compensate for the drawbacks of each other, resulting in effective watermarking.In this paper, we will describe a digital image watermarking algorithm based on combining two transforms; DWT and DCT. Watermarking is done by altering the wavelets coefficients of carefully selected DWT sub-bands, followed by the application of the DCT transform on the selected sub-bands.
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DIGITAL IMAGE WATERMARKING USING WAVELET TRANSFORM DOMAIN
ABSTRACT
we start by first characterizing the most important and distinguishing features of wavelet-based watermarking schemes. Application scenario,copyright protection is considered and building on the experience that was gained, implemented two distinguishing watermarking schemes. Detailed comparison and obtained results are presented and discussed.
Overview
Water marking
Types of Watermarked Images:
1.Visible watermarking
2.Invisible watermarking
Discrete Wavelet Transform
The discrete wavelet transform (DWT) has gained widespread acceptance in signal processing and image compression.
Recently the TIF committee has released its new image coding standard, TIF-2000, which has been based upon DWT.
Discrete Wavelet Transform
2-D DWT for Image
Discrete Wavelet Transform
Discrete Wavelet Transform
2-D DWT for Image
Discrete Wavelet Transform
Advantages of DWT
Allows good localization both in time and spatial frequency domain.
Better identification of which data is relevant to human perceptionà higher compression ratio
Higher flexibility: Wavelet function can be freely chosen
Discrete Wavelet Transform
Image Comparison
Disadvantages of DWT
The cost of computing DWT as compared to DCT is higher.
Longer compression time
Future scope
The work presented in this project is not user friendly i.e. one can provide a graphical user interface for the work that has been presented. Also the effective retrieving of the image when passed through a lossy channel can be considered for further work. The compression of the watermarked image can also be considered in this process
Conclusion
Watermarking has been used as a tool for embedding image for copyright protection. It is also used for transmission of the data securely and also provided assistance to management of information.
Applications
Broadcast Monitoring (Television news often contains watermarked video from international agencies)
Copyright protection
Fingerprinting (Different recipients get differently watermarked content)
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