Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.7305/automatika.53-4.228
A Robust Procedure for ImageWatermarking based on the Hermite Projection Method
Srdjan Stanković
; Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, Dzordza Vasingtona bb, 81000, Podgorica, Montenegro
Irena Orović
; Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, Dzordza Vasingtona bb, 81000, Podgorica, Montenegro
Bijan Mobasseri
; ECE Department, Villanova University Villanova, PA 19085 USA (610) 519-4958
Marie Chabert
; Electronics and signal processing department, University of Toulouse INP-ENSEEIHT, 2 rue Camichel 31071 Toulouse cedex 7 France
Abstract
A procedure for combined image watermarking and compression, based on the Hermite projection method is proposed. The Hermite coefficients obtained by using the Hermite expansion are used for watermark embedding. The image can be efficiently reconstructed by using a set of Hermite coefficients that is quite smaller than the number of original ones. Hence, the watermark embedding is actually done in the compressed domain, while maintaining still high image quality (measured by high PSNR). The efficiency of the proposed procedure is proven experimentally, showing high robustness even for very strong standard attacks. Moreover, the method is robust not only to the standard attacks, but to the geometrical attacks, as well. The proposed approach can be suitable for different copyright and ownership protection purposes, especially in real-applications that require image compression, such as multimedia and Internet applications, remote sensing and satellite imaging.
Keywords
Image watermarking; Image compression; Hermite projection method; Hermite functions; Watermark robustness
Hrčak ID:
93928
URI
Publication date:
5.12.2012.
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