Title
Quantum watermarking scheme through Arnold scrambling and LSB steganography.
Abstract
Based on the NEQR of quantum images, a new quantum gray-scale image watermarking scheme is proposed through Arnold scrambling and least significant bit (LSB) steganography. The sizes of the carrier image and the watermark image are assumed to be $$2n\\times 2n$$2n×2n and $$n\\times n$$n×n, respectively. Firstly, a classical $$n\\times n$$n×n sized watermark image with 8-bit gray scale is expanded to a $$2n\\times 2n$$2n×2n sized image with 2-bit gray scale. Secondly, through the module of PA-MOD N, the expanded watermark image is scrambled to a meaningless image by the Arnold transform. Then, the expanded scrambled image is embedded into the carrier image by the steganography method of LSB. Finally, the time complexity analysis is given. The simulation experiment results show that our quantum circuit has lower time complexity, and the proposed watermarking scheme is superior to others.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s11128-017-1640-9
Quantum Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Quantum watermarking,Arnold scramble,Least significant bit,Quantum circuit
Quantum circuit,Steganography,Digital watermarking,Scrambling,Quantum mechanics,Algorithm,Watermark,Time complexity,Grayscale,Physics,Least significant bit
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
9
1570-0755
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.55
30
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ri-Gui Zhou1507.78
Wenwen Hu2406.85
Ping Fan3494.00