Title
An invisible and robust watermarking scheme using convolutional neural networks
Abstract
Although zero-watermarking schemes based on image features demonstrate perfect imperceptibility, they are exposed to the weak robust problem. This is because the zero-watermark information construction and the watermark information detection depend on XOR logic operation. In this study, a watermarking scheme that constructs a zero-watermark image by superimposing the color style of the host image on the content of the watermark logo using convolutional neural networks is proposed. A stylized image is generated by iterating between the style of the host image and the content of a watermark logo added with a timestamp. The stylized image is then encrypted via Arnold transform and is registered in the intellectual property rights as the zero-watermark image. The image copyright is verified using the convolutional neural network whose loss function is defined as the difference between the original watermark logo and its output image. Its training dataset consists of many image pairs, each of which is composed of the host image under an attack and the decrypted zero-watermark image. Experimental results show that the proposed zero-watermarking scheme is highly robust to both common image processing and geometric attacks, and its performance far surpasses those of the existing zero-watermarking methods and non-zero-watermarking methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.eswa.2022.118529
Expert Systems with Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Zero-watermark,Color style,Convolutional neural network,Geometric attack,Robustness
Journal
210
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0957-4174
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gang Liu19836.92
Ruotong Xiang200.34
Jing Liu300.34
Rong Pan400.34
Ziyi Zhang500.34