A Digital Image Watermarking Scheme Withstanding Malicious Attacks

Akira SHIOZAKI  Jiro TANIMOTO  Motoi IWATA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E83-A   No.10   pp.2015-2022
Publication Date: 2000/10/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Information Security
Keyword: 
watermark,  copyright protection,  digital images,  ID information,  StirMark,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, we propose a new watermarking method which spreads an ID pattern with specific sequences and embeds it throughout the spatial domain of an image. A set of the sequences 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 a 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 StirMark, which is a benchmark tool to test robustness of watermarked images, as well as disturbance by noise addition and common image processing operations such as edge-enhancement, brightness-contrast conversion, posterization, Gauss filtering, median filtering, gamma correction, JPEG compression and clipping.