A blind multiple watermarks based on human visual characteristics

Digital watermarking is an alternative solution to prevent unauthorized duplication, distribution and breach of ownership right. This paper proposes a watermarking scheme for multiple watermarks embedding. The embedding of multiple watermarks use a block-based scheme based on human visual characteri...

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Main Authors: Ernawan, Ferda, Zuriani, Mustaffa, Liew, Siau-Chuin, Kohbalan, Moorthy
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES) 2018
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author Ernawan, Ferda
Zuriani, Mustaffa
Liew, Siau-Chuin
Kohbalan, Moorthy
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Zuriani, Mustaffa
Liew, Siau-Chuin
Kohbalan, Moorthy
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description Digital watermarking is an alternative solution to prevent unauthorized duplication, distribution and breach of ownership right. This paper proposes a watermarking scheme for multiple watermarks embedding. The embedding of multiple watermarks use a block-based scheme based on human visual characteristics. A threshold is used to determine the watermark values by modifying first column of the orthogonal U matrix obtained from Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). The tradeoff between normalize cross-correlation and imperceptibility of watermarked image from quantization steps was used to achieve an optimal threshold value. The results show that our proposed multiple watermarks scheme exhibit robustness against signal processing attacks. The proposed scheme demonstrates that the watermark recovery from chrominance blue was resistant against different types of attacks.
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spelling ump-210572020-01-30T07:07:22Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21057/ A blind multiple watermarks based on human visual characteristics Ernawan, Ferda Zuriani, Mustaffa Liew, Siau-Chuin Kohbalan, Moorthy QA76 Computer software Digital watermarking is an alternative solution to prevent unauthorized duplication, distribution and breach of ownership right. This paper proposes a watermarking scheme for multiple watermarks embedding. The embedding of multiple watermarks use a block-based scheme based on human visual characteristics. A threshold is used to determine the watermark values by modifying first column of the orthogonal U matrix obtained from Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). The tradeoff between normalize cross-correlation and imperceptibility of watermarked image from quantization steps was used to achieve an optimal threshold value. The results show that our proposed multiple watermarks scheme exhibit robustness against signal processing attacks. The proposed scheme demonstrates that the watermark recovery from chrominance blue was resistant against different types of attacks. Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES) 2018-08 Article PeerReviewed pdf en cc_by_nc_4 http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21057/1/A%20blind%20multiple%20watermarks%20based%20on%20human%20visual%20characteristic.pdf Ernawan, Ferda and Zuriani, Mustaffa and Liew, Siau-Chuin and Kohbalan, Moorthy (2018) A blind multiple watermarks based on human visual characteristics. International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), 8 (4). pp. 2578-2587. ISSN 2088-8708. (Published) https://www.iaescore.com/journals/index.php/IJECE/article/view/11900/9104 10.11591/ijece.v8i4.pp2578-2587
spellingShingle QA76 Computer software
Ernawan, Ferda
Zuriani, Mustaffa
Liew, Siau-Chuin
Kohbalan, Moorthy
A blind multiple watermarks based on human visual characteristics
title A blind multiple watermarks based on human visual characteristics
title_full A blind multiple watermarks based on human visual characteristics
title_fullStr A blind multiple watermarks based on human visual characteristics
title_full_unstemmed A blind multiple watermarks based on human visual characteristics
title_short A blind multiple watermarks based on human visual characteristics
title_sort blind multiple watermarks based on human visual characteristics
topic QA76 Computer software
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