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http://dx.doi.org/10.17661/jkiiect.2020.13.6.503

Image watermarking technique applying multiple encryption techniques  

Jung, Soo-Mok (Division of Computer Science & Engineering, Sahmyook University)
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The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology / v.13, no.6, 2020 , pp. 503-510 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we proposed an effective technique that greatly improves the security of the watermark by concealing the multiple-encrypted watermark in the LSB of the image pixel. Even if multiple encrypted watermark hidden in the LSBs of an image pixel are extracted, it is impossible to decrypt them, so the security of the watermark is maintained very high. If the watermark is multiple encrypted and hidden in the image using the proposed technique, the visual quality of the watermark-hidden image is very high, making it impossible to distinguish between the original image and the resulting image in which the watermark is hidden. The original watermark data can be completely extracted without loss, according to the procedure of the proposed technique, from the resulting image that the watermark is encrypted and hidden in the original image. The performance of the proposed technique was analyzed mathematically and the superiority of the proposed technique was confirmed through experiments. The proposed technique is an excellent image watermarking technique that greatly improves the security of the watermark hidden in the image compared to the existing technique.
Keywords
Image; LSB; PSNR; Encryption; Watermark Embedding;
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