A Method of Embedding Robust Watermarks into Digital Color Images

Ken-ichi HASHIDA  Akira SHIOZAKI  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E81-A   No.10   pp.2133-2137
Publication Date: 1998/10/25
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications)
Category: Security
Keyword: 
watermarking,  copyright protection,  color images,  ID information,  

Full Text: PDF(488.6KB)>>
Buy this Article



Summary: 
It is urgently required to protect copyrights of digital contents since the digital contents can be easily copied without degradation of quality. In this paper, we propose a new watermarking method which spreads an ID pattern with a random sequence and embeds it throughout the spatial domain of a color image. The random sequence is a key for extracting the ID pattern. As an ID pattern is spread throughout an image, we can extract the ID pattern from a part of the image, that is clipped image. We can also confirm authenticity by extracting the same ID pattern from several parts of an image. The proposed method is robust to disturbance by noise addition and image conversion such as brightness-contrast conversion and JPEG compression.