Color Image Watermarking in Encryption Domain

Image watermarking is one of the techniques used for copyright protection of digital images. In this paper, copyright protection of color images using watermarking is presented with the help of data encryption. The main contribution in this algorithm is that the color image converts into an encrypted image using compressive sensing (CS) based encryption and then watermark logo is inserted into the encrypted image to get the watermarked encrypted image. After that, CS based decryption is applied to the watermarked version of an encrypted image to get a watermarked color image. Experimental results of this algorithm show that this technique effectively works for copyright protection of color images and provide better robustness compared to existing algorithms available in the literature.

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