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http://dx.doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2020.10.007

Optimization of 3D Triangular Mesh Watermarking Using ACO-Weber's Law

Narendra, Modigari (Computer Science and Engineering, Vignan's Foundation for Science Technology and Research Deemed to be University)
Valarmathi, M.L. (Computer Science & Engineering, Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology)
Anbarasi, L.Jani (School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT Chennai)

Publication Information

KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS) / v.14, no.10, 2020 , pp. 4042-4059 More about this Journal

Abstract

The development of new multimedia techniques such as 3D printing is increasingly attracting the public's attention towards 3D objects. An optimized robust and imperceptible watermarking method based on Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and Weber Law is proposed for 3D polygonal models. The proposed approach partitions the host model into smaller sub meshes and generates a secret watermark from the sub meshes using Weber Law. ACO based optimized strength factor is identified for embedding the watermark. The secret watermark is embedded and extracted on the wavelet domain. The proposed scheme is robust against geometric and photometric attacks that overcomes the synchronization problem and authenticates the secret watermark from the distorted models. The primary characteristic of the proposed system is the flexibility achieved in data embedding capacity due to the optimized strength factor. Extensive simulation results shows enhanced performance of the recommended framework and robustness towards the most common attacks like geometric transformations, noise, cropping, mesh smoothening, and the combination of such attacks.

Keywords

Ant colony optimization; Digital Watermarking; 3D models; Weber's Law; Image Processing;

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