WAVELET-BASED DIGITAL WATERMARKING USING HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM FOR COPYRIGHT PROTECTION

  • Sombun, Anuwat (Research Center for Communication and Information Technology, Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut's Institue of Technology Ladkrabang) ;
  • Pinngern, Quen (Research Center for Communication and Information Technology, Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut's Institue of Technology Ladkrabang) ;
  • Kimpan, Chom (Department of Science Program in Computer Science, Sripathum University JaktuJak Bangkok)
  • Published : 2004.08.25

Abstract

This paper presents a wavelet-based digital watermarking technique for still images. The digital watermarking considering human visual system (HVS) to increase the robustness and perceptual invisibility of digital watermark. The watermarking embedding is modified discrete wavelet transform (DWT) coefficients of the subbands of the images. The human visual system is number of factors that effect the noise sensitivity of human eyes that is considered to increase the robustness and perceptual invisibility of digital watermark. The watermark detection is blind watermark ( original image is not required ). Experimental results successful against attacks by image processing such as add noise, cropping, filtering, JPEG and JPEG2000 compression.

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