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Watermarking of Gray Logo & Color Image based on Human Visual System  

NOH Jin Soo (Graduate School, Chosun University)
SHIN Kwang Gyu (Graduate School, Chosun University)
RHEE Kang Hyeon (Dept. of Electronic Eng., College of Elec-Info Eng., Chosun University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI / v.42, no.3, 2005 , pp. 73-82 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, The wide range of the Internet applications and the related technology developments enabled the ease use of the digital multimedia contents (fixed images, movies, digital audios). However, due to the replay ability which the contents may be easily duplicated and not only the duplicates are capable of providing the same original quality. There are mainly the encipher techniques and the watermarking techniques which are studied and used as solutions for the above problem in order to protect the license holders' rights. To the protection of the IP(Intellectual Property) rights of the owner, digital watermarking is the technique that authenticates the legal copyrighter. This paper proposed the watermarking algorithms to watermark the 256 gray logo image and the color image by applying the wavelet transformation to the color stand-still images. The proposed algorithms conducted the watermark insertion at the LH frequency region among the wavelet transformation regions (LL, LH, HL, HH). The interleaving algorithms which applied in data communication was applied to the watermark. the amount of watermark increased which consequently caused the PSNR to decrease but this might provide the perseverance against the external attacks such as extraction, filtering, and crop.
Keywords
Watermarking; Wavelet; HVS; Gray Logo & Color Image; Benchmarking;
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