Title
A blind color image watermarking scheme with variable steps based on Schur decomposition
Abstract
The widespread application of the Internet makes the protection of image copyright face serious challenges. For resolving this problem, this paper designs a blind color digital image watermarking algorithm which meets the requirements of invisibility, security and robustness. The advantages of the proposed method include the following two points: 1) the proposed method uses Affine transformation with large key space to encrypt the watermark information; 2) Schur decomposition with low complexity is selected and performed on the matrix blocks in different color channels of the host image. In this proposed method, the watermark embedding and blind extraction are completed by quantizing the eigenvalues on the diagonal of the decomposed matrix with different quantization steps. Experimental results show that the proposed method not only has good invisibility, but also has high security and strong robustness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s11042-019-08423-1
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Color digital watermarking, Schur decomposition, Affine transformation, Security
Journal
79
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
1380-7501
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Decheng Liu1307.26
Zihan Yuan2204.07
Qingtang Su317616.90