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http://dx.doi.org/10.4218/etrij.13.0112.0480

Robust Watermarking Scheme Based on Radius Weight Mean and Feature-Embedding Technique  

Yang, Ching-Yu (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Penghu University of Science and Technology)
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ETRI Journal / v.35, no.3, 2013 , pp. 512-522 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, the radius weight mean (RWM) and the feature-embedding technique are used to present a novel watermarking scheme for color images. Simulations validate that the stego-images generated by the proposed scheme are robust against most common image-processing operations, such as compression, color quantization, bit truncation, noise addition, cropping, blurring, mosaicking, zigzagging, inversion, (edge) sharpening, and so on. The proposed method possesses outstanding performance in resisting high compression ratio attacks: JPEG2000 and JPEG. Further, to provide extra hiding storage, a steganographic method using the RWM with the least significant bit substitution technique is suggested. Experiment results indicate that the resulting perceived quality is desirable, whereas the peak signal-to-noise ratio is high. The payload generated using the proposed method is also superior to that generated by existing approaches.
Keywords
Robust watermarking algorithm; color image steganography; radius weighted mean; feature-embedding technique;
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