Title
A robust blind hybrid image watermarking scheme in RDWT-DCT domain using Arnold scrambling.
Abstract
To compromise between imperceptibility and robustness property of robust image watermarking technique, a RDWT-DCT based blind image watermarking scheme using Arnold scrambling is presented in this paper. Firstly, RDWT (Redundant Discrete Wavelet Transform) is applied to each gray scale cover image block after the image is decomposed into fixed size non overlapping blocks. Secondly, the binary watermark logo is encrypted by Arnold chaotic map and reshaped to a sequence to improve the security of the logo. In the subsequent step, DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) is employed on each LH subband of the non-overlapping host image block. Finally, after zigzag scanning of each DCT block a binary bit of watermark is embedded into each block by adjusting some middle significant AC coefficients using repetition code. Experimental results show that robustness is achieved by recovering satisfactory watermark data from the reconstructed cover image after applying common geometric transformation attacks (like rotation, cropping, scaling, shearing and deletion of lines or column operation etc.), common enhancement technique attacks (like lowpass filtering, histogram equalization, sharpening, gamma correction, noise addition etc.) and JPEG compression attacks. The proposed scheme is also tested to verify the robustness performance against standard benchmark software \"Checkmark\" and satisfactory results are achieved against the Checkmark attacks such as Hard and Soft Thresholding, Template Removal, Warping, Dithering, Remodulation and Downsampling/Upsampling etc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s11042-016-3902-4
Multimedia Tools Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Robustness, Blind watermarking, Redundant discrete wavelet transform, Discrete cosine transform, Repetition code, Arnold scrambling
Computer vision,Digital watermarking,Image warping,Computer science,Discrete cosine transform,Robustness (computer science),Watermark,Artificial intelligence,Discrete wavelet transform,Histogram equalization,Upsampling
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
76
3
1573-7721
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.55
29
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Soumitra Roy1151.27
Arup Kumar Pal26414.41