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Color Images Watermarking Based on Wavelet Transform

웨이블릿 변환 기반의 컬러영상 워터마킹

  • 박영일 (부경대학교 전자컴퓨터정보통신공학부) ;
  • 김석태 (부경대학교 전자컴퓨터정보통신공학부)
  • Published : 2007.10.31

Abstract

This study proposes a new digital watermarking technique based on wavelet transformation on color image. First the $YC_bC_r$ coordinates obtain from RGB color space. then, the correlation of watermark is decreased by Arnold transformation. Next, watermark which has been enlarged by Linear Bit-expansion is inserted at a given intensity in Color images' low frequency sub-bands. When detecting the presence of watermark, F-norm function is applied. As a result of the various experiments on color images, the proposed watermarking technique has outstanding quality in regards to fidelity and robustness.

본 논문에서는 웨이블릿 변환을 기반으로 한 새로운 컬러영상 워터마킹 기법을 제안한다. 먼저 RGB컬러영역을 YCbCr 좌표계로 변환한다. 그리고 워터마크에 대해 Arnold 변환을 하여 워터마크의 상관성을 적게 만든다. 그 후, 선형비트확장 기법을 적용하여 확대된 워터마크를 웨이블릿 변환된 컬러 영상의 Y 영역-저주파대에 일정한 강도로 삽입한다. 워터마크를 추출할 때는 F-노름(norm) 함수를 이용한다. 다양한 칼라영상에 대해 실험을 한 결과 제안한 방법은 충실도와 강인성 측면에서 우수한 특성을 가짐을 확인하였다.

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