Title
Halftone image watermarking via optimization.
Abstract
Although halftone image watermarking technologies have been rapidly developing in the 21st century, the existing techniques lack a theoretical basis. In this paper, we tackle halftone image watermarking problems from a theoretical perspective. First, we propose a general optimization framework for Halftone Visual Watermarking (HVW), which is a certain category of halftone image watermarking techniques. Then two specific HVW problems, Single-sided Embedding Error Diffusion (SEED) and Double-sided Embedding Error Diffusion (DEED) are presented and solved by applying the proposed framework. With SEED and DEED obtained, both the theoretical solutions and experimental results indicate that our previous heuristic methods, Data Hiding by Conjugate Error Diffusion (DHCED) and Data Hiding by Dual Conjugate Error Diffusion (DHDCED), are special cases of SEED and DEED, respectively. We also demonstrate that DEED can achieve outstanding performance compared to DHDCED and other previous methods by selecting different parameters. With this paper, we essentially build a bridge between the theory and practical implementations of HVW problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.image.2015.12.002
Signal Processing: Image Communication
Keywords
Field
DocType
Halftone image,Error diffusion,Watermarking,Optimization,Halftone image watermarking
Computer vision,Digital watermarking,Heuristic,Embedding,Computer science,Information hiding,Error diffusion,Deed,Halftone,Theoretical computer science,Implementation,Artificial intelligence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
41
C
0923-5965
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.43
24
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuanfang Guo19518.21
Oscar C. Au21592176.54
Jiantao Zhou358078.87
Ketan Tang410612.98
Xiaopeng Fan559769.90