Recoverable image watermarking based on halftoning for content authentication

Zuxi Wang; Xiangyuan Zhao; Wenzong Wang; Hanping Hu; Li Li

doi:10.1117/12.848530

30 October 2009 Recoverable image watermarking based on halftoning for content authentication

Zuxi Wang, Xiangyuan Zhao, Wenzong Wang, Hanping Hu, Li Li

Proceedings Volume 7498, MIPPR 2009: Remote Sensing and GIS Data Processing and Other Applications; 74984N (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.848530
Event: Sixth International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, 2009, Yichang, China

Abstract

In this paper, a semi-fragile watermark solution based on quantization index modulation in the wavelet region was proposed. The algorithm employs a compressed halftoned binary image as watermark and embeds it in the wavelet domain through quantization index modulation, which can not only identify the authenticity of the content of digital image, but also recover the tampered image approximately. Because the watermark is a low-resolution original image, which carries the original image information, so the original image is not required when authenticating, and the tampered region can be recovered according to the watermark. The method can tolerate a certain degree of compression distortion or noise. Beside, a secret key is used to select the embedded watermark bits and their embedded positions to increase the security of watermarking. Experimental results show this semi-fragile watermarking algorithm is effective and practical for content authentication.

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Zuxi Wang, Xiangyuan Zhao, Wenzong Wang, Hanping Hu, and Li Li "Recoverable image watermarking based on halftoning for content authentication", Proc. SPIE 7498, MIPPR 2009: Remote Sensing and GIS Data Processing and Other Applications, 74984N (30 October 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.848530

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