S-DWF: An Integrated Schema for Secure Digital Image Watermarking

The recent advancement in the field of information and communication technologies requires potential security solutions to provide efficient information protection. The proposed study conceptualizes a secure digital watermarking framework also abbreviated as S-DWF which performs an ‘image dithering’ form of decomposition followed by a key-based watermarking procedure. The proposed S-DWF implemented in a numerical computing platform with respect to the addition of different noisy level and also checked for performance assessment. The outcome of the study shows that the proposed S-DWF attains better information protection in terms of Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Bit Error Rate (BER) even in the presence of any noisy attack as compared to the existing baseline. It also balances the trade-off between computational effort required and the visual and perceptual quality of the retrieved watermark image signal information.

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