Title
Enhanced robustness in image watermarking using turbo codes
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the improvement achieved by turbo coding for robustness in still image watermarking. We use an error correcting scheme based on the concatenation of a BCH product code and a repetition code. The product code is iteratively decoded using the Chase-Pyndiah algorithm (turbo decoded). For this study, we set the watermarking distortion to around 38 dB and we consider different payloads that can correspond to different applications and services. We compare different coding strategies (i.e. repetition code only and a concatenation of product and repetition codes) in terms of robustness to different photometric attacks, in particular additive noise or lossy compression. Typically, for a payload of 121 bits, the robustness gain for a given message error probability is significant: first error appears at a JPEG quality factor of about 25% with the new coding scheme instead of about 50% when using only repetition codes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1117/12.477323
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS (SPIE)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
image,watermarking,error correcting codes,product codes,turbo codes,robustness
Conference
5020
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0277-786X
1
0.37
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
christian rey110.37
karine amis210.37
Jean-Luc Dugelay31173104.79
Ramesh Pyndiah47917.12
annie picart510.37