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Digital Image Watermarking using Subband Correlation Wavelet Domain  

서영호 (광운대학교 전자재료공학과)
박진영 (㈜펜택&큐리텔)
김동욱 (광운대학교 전자재료공학과)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP / v.40, no.6, 2003 , pp. 51-60 More about this Journal
Abstract
The watermarking is the technique that embeds or extracts the certain data without the change of the original data for the copyright protection of the multimedia contents. Watermark-embedded contents must not be distinguished by human's eye and must be robust to the various image processing and the intentional distortions. In this paper, we propose a new watermarking technique applied in the wavelet domain which has both the spatial and frequency information of a image. For both the robustness and the invisibility, the positions for embedding the watermark is selected with the multi-threshold. We search the similarity between highly correlated coefficients in the each subband and decide the mark space after verifying the significance in the specified subband. The similarity is represented by the coefficient difference between the subbands and its distribution is used in the watermark embedding and extracting. The embedded watermark can be extracted without the original image using the relationship of the subbands. By these properties the proposed watermarking algorithm has the invisibility and the robustness to the attacks such as JPEG compression and the general image processing.
Keywords
Watermarking; Wavelet; Lifting; JPEG; Subband;
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