Multi-Watermarking Method for Image Ownership Protection and Tamper Proofing

In this paper, multi-watermarking algorithm is proposed to satisfy two purpose of ownership protection and tamper proofing simultaneously. At first, for robust watermarking, the location of the embedding wavelet coefficient is selected by using existing QSWT algorithm. And then, we propose the method inserting discrete cosine transformed watermark. The watermarked image is watermarked again for the tamper proofing. The tamper proofing algorithm is also proposed. According to the experimental results, the proposed multi-watermarking algorithm is robust to the attack, such as blurring, sharpening, JPEG compression. And also, the tampered area are detected in blocks, making it simple to judge which pixels are changed.