Title
A robust image watermarking scheme in DCT domain based on adaptive texture direction quantization
Abstract
This paper proposes a novel robust image watermarking scheme in Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) domain for active forensics. We investigate the relation between the positions and the modification magnitudes of DCT coefficients and directions of texture blocks. By exploring such relation, a direction-coefficient mapping is designed. First, the texture direction of each image block is estimated by Gabor filter. And then, according to the direction-coefficient mapping, one watermark bit is embedded into each block along its texture direction. Compared with existing schemes, the proposed method utilizes the direction features of texture blocks better . Therefore, the improvements in watermarked image quality and the robustness of watermark signal against image processing attacks are both achieved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s11042-018-6596-y
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Active forensics, Robust watermarking, Gabor filter, Texture direction, Direction-coefficient mapping
Computer vision,Digital watermarking,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Discrete cosine transform,Image quality,Image processing,Watermark,Robustness (computer science),Gabor filter,Artificial intelligence,Quantization (signal processing)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
78.0
7
1573-7721
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
18
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Han, Fang14810.86
Hang Zhou27214.04
Hang Zhou37214.04
Weiming Zhang4110488.72
Nenghai Yu52238183.33