Image watermarking using the complex Hadamard transform

In this paper, we review some techniques for embedding watermarks in grey scale digital images and propose a novel method based on multi-resolution and complex Hadamard transforms. The experimental results show that our scheme is robust to JPEG compression, image resizing, cropping, dithering distortion and successive watermarking.

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