A robust blind color image watermarking based on Fourier transform domain

Abstract In this work, we propose a new substitution scheme for color images watermarking based on the Fourier transform. This scheme will be declined into two variants in which the image will be divided into three components R, G and B, and then to each component a transform is applied. The parity of the resulting coefficients will then be combined to hide the watermark in the medium frequency band. In our experiments several variants of the Fourier transform are used (Discrete Fourier Transform, a Fractional Fourier Transform as well as a Quaternion Discrete Fourier Transform). For each transform, both variants of our watermarking scheme are applied. The obtained results show that our approach offers good imperceptibility and generates watermarking images robust against various attacks with a high-quality watermark.

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