Quantization Watermarking in the JPEG2000 Coding Pipeline

In this paper, we propose a blind watermarking method integrated in the JPEG2000 coding pipeline. Prior to the entropy coding stage, the binary watermark is placed in the independent code-blocks using Quantization Index Modulation (QIM). The quantization strategy allows to embed data in the detail subbands of low resolution as well as in the approximation image. Watermark recovery is performed without reference to the original image during image decompression. The proposed embedding scheme is robust to compression and other image processing attacks. We demonstrate two application scenarios: image authentication and copyright protection.

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