Title | ||
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Adaptive color image watermarking based on a modified improved pixel-wise masking technique |
Abstract | ||
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In this paper, a family of modified wavelet-based watermarking techniques is proposed. This family of techniques is based on the improved pixel-wise (PW) watermarking scheme. The basic proposed algorithm considerably improves the PSNR of the watermarked image (in the range of 2.20-7.28dB), and is based on selecting specific locations in the three detailed sub-bands of the first level of the DWT decomposition of the image. The selective nature of the modified PW method (denoted as selective PW: SPW) allows the scheme to be adaptive in terms of the imperceptibility and the watermark size. Also, the PW and SPW methods were extended to be implemented with color images: (1) grayscale-wise PW method (G-PW) that embeds the watermark in the Y component of the YCbCr model. (2) Multi spectral-PW method (MS-PW) that embeds the watermark in the R, G, and B layers independently. (3) Multi spectral-SPW method (MS-SPW) that gains high PSNR value compared with MS-SPW, and (4) multi spectral-maximum PW method (MS-MPW) which is proposed to improve the PSNR value as well as the level of watermarking security, when compared with MS-PW method. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2009 | 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2009.01.007 | Computers & Electrical Engineering |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
color image | Digital watermarking,Masking (art),Computer science,Real-time computing,Watermark,Artificial intelligence,Wavelet,Computer vision,YCbCr,Color image watermarking,Pattern recognition,Pixel,Color imaging | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
35 | 5 | 0045-7906 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
12 | 0.63 | 24 |
Authors | ||
2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Hazem Al-otum | 1 | 19 | 1.83 |
Allam O. Al-Taba'a | 2 | 12 | 0.63 |