On the Security of the Full-Band Image Watermark for Copyright Protection

Digital watermarks have been embedded invisibly in digital media to protect copy rights of legal owners. The embedded watermarks can be extracted to indicate ownership originals. In this paper a robust Full-Band Image Watermark method is investigated by using various attacks on the watermarked image. Image attacks have evolved so much that they are not just destructive, that is, degrading the visual quality of the image, but somehow, constructive, that is, altering the original work in creative ways to make it look as if a new piece of creation. We launched many destructive and constructive attacks on images embedded with our watermarking method to test its security. The experimental results prove that it is very robust against image attacks.

[1]  Tieniu Tan,et al.  An SVD-based watermarking scheme for protecting rightful ownership , 2002, IEEE Trans. Multim..

[2]  Stéphane Mallat,et al.  A Theory for Multiresolution Signal Decomposition: The Wavelet Representation , 1989, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell..

[3]  Jerome M. Shapiro,et al.  Embedded image coding using zerotrees of wavelet coefficients , 1993, IEEE Trans. Signal Process..

[4]  Shinfeng D. Lin,et al.  A robust DCT-based watermarking for copyright protection , 2000, 2000 Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on Consumer Electronics. Nineteenth in the Series (Cat. No.00CH37102).

[5]  Konstantinos Konstantinides,et al.  Application of SVD based spatial filtering to video sequences , 1995, 1995 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

[6]  Ingemar J. Cox,et al.  Rotation, scale, and translation resilient watermarking for images , 2001, IEEE Trans. Image Process..

[7]  H. Andrews,et al.  Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) Image Coding , 1976, IEEE Trans. Commun..

[8]  Li Li,et al.  Color Image Watermarking Algorithm Based on DWT-SVD , 2007, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics.

[9]  N. Garguir.  Comparative Performance of SVD and Adaptive Cosine Transform in Coding Images , 1979, IEEE Trans. Commun..

[10]  Roman Rykaczewski,et al.  Comments on "An SVD-Based Watermarking Scheme for Protecting Rightful Ownership" , 2007, IEEE Trans. Multim..

[11]  Dianne P. O'Leary,et al.  Digital Image Compression by Outer Product Expansion , 1983, IEEE Trans. Commun..

[12]  John Håkon Husøy,et al.  A critique of SVD-based image coding systems , 1999, ISCAS'99. Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems VLSI (Cat. No.99CH36349).

[13]  Yuping Hu,et al.  An SVD-Based Watermarking Method for Image Authenticion , 2007, International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing.

[14]  Jar-Ferr Yang,et al.  Combined techniques of singular value decomposition and vector quantization for image coding , 1995, IEEE Trans. Image Process..

[15]  Paul Dan Cristea,et al.  Wavelet image compression - the quadtree coding approach , 1999, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[16]  Chu-Hsing Lin,et al.  A Robust Full-Band Image Watermarking Scheme , 2006, 2006 10th IEEE Singapore International Conference on Communication Systems.

[17]  Konstantinos Konstantinides,et al.  Improved compression performance using singular value decomposition (SVD)-based filters for still images , 1995, Electronic Imaging.

[18]  Marcos Craizer,et al.  Convergent algorithms for successive approximation vector quantisation with applications to wavelet image compression , 1999 .

[19]  Jaejin Lee,et al.  A watermarking sequence using parities of error control coding for image authentication and correction , 2000, IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron..

[20]  Konstantinos Konstantinides,et al.  Noise estimation and filtering using block-based singular value decomposition , 1997, IEEE Trans. Image Process..

[21]  Sura Ramzi Sheriff.  Digital Image Watermarking Using Singular Value Decomposition , 2010 .

[22]  Der-Chyuan Lou,et al.  A semi-blind digital watermarking scheme based on singular value decomposition , 2006, Comput. Stand. Interfaces.

[23]  Tor A. Ramstad,et al.  Hybrid KLT-SVD image compression , 1997, 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

[24]  Michel Barlaud,et al.  Image coding using wavelet transform , 1992, IEEE Trans. Image Process..

[25]  Philip Ogunbona,et al.  Signal analysis using a multiresolution form of the singular value decomposition , 2001, IEEE Trans. Image Process..