Title
Perceptual Data Hiding Exploiting Between-Coefficient Contrast Masking
Abstract
This paper proposes a novel data hiding scheme in which a payload is embedded into the discrete cosine transform domain. The characteristics of the Human Visual System (HVS) with respect to image fruition have been exploited to adapt the strength of the embedded data and integrated in the design of a digital image watermarking system. By using an HVS-inspired image quality metric, we study the relation between the amount of data that can be embedded and the resulting perceived quality. This study allows one to increase the robustness of the watermarked image without damaging the perceived quality, or, as alternative, to reduce the impairments produced by the watermarking process given a fixed embedding strength. Experimental results show the effectiveness and the robustness of the proposed solution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1117/12.770070
IMAGE PROCESSING: ALGORITHMS AND SYSTEMS VI
Keywords
Field
DocType
data hiding, watermarking, perceptual quality metrics
Computer vision,Digital watermarking,Human visual system model,Discrete cosine transform,Information hiding,Image processing,Image quality,Robustness (computer science),Digital image,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6812
0277-786X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S. Maranò110.41
F. Battisti2666.10
A. Vaccari310.41
Giulia Boato437340.80
Marco Carli525228.85