A blind and readable watermarking technique for color images

The paper presents a wavelet domain watermarking technique for color images. The characteristics of this transform domain are well suited for masking consideration, due to its good localization in both space and frequency. The different color sensitivity can be exploited in order to increase the watermarking power, and therefore its reliability. Thanks to the multi-resolution nature of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) the watermark detection can be obtained iteratively. The technique has been successfully evaluated against attacks such as JPEG and JPEG-2000 compression, filtering, cropping, dithering and digital to analog and analog to digital conversions.

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