An Improved Image Watermarking by Modifying Selected DWT-DCT Coefficients

Digital images can be easily copied or manipulated by irresponsible persons. The right property needs to be secured and protected from illegal copies and piracy. Digital watermarking is one of the solutions to protect the intellectual property of digital images. This paper proposed the adaptive scal...

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Main Authors: Ernawan, Ferda, Ariatmanto, Dhani, Firdaus, Ahmad
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021
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author Ernawan, Ferda
Ariatmanto, Dhani
Firdaus, Ahmad
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Ariatmanto, Dhani
Firdaus, Ahmad
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description Digital images can be easily copied or manipulated by irresponsible persons. The right property needs to be secured and protected from illegal copies and piracy. Digital watermarking is one of the solutions to protect the intellectual property of digital images. This paper proposed the adaptive scaling factor based on selected DWT-DCT coefficients of its image content. The adaptive scaling factor was generated based on the role of selected DWT-DCT coefficients against the average value of DWT-DCT coefficients. The watermark image was embedded by using a proposed set of rules that consider the adaptive scaling factor. The experimental results showed that the proposed scheme achieved high PSNR value of 47dB, SSIM value of about 0.987 and an embedded watermark resistance to several attacks in the watermarked image.
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spelling ump-336772022-05-11T02:44:25Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33677/ An Improved Image Watermarking by Modifying Selected DWT-DCT Coefficients Ernawan, Ferda Ariatmanto, Dhani Firdaus, Ahmad QA76 Computer software Digital images can be easily copied or manipulated by irresponsible persons. The right property needs to be secured and protected from illegal copies and piracy. Digital watermarking is one of the solutions to protect the intellectual property of digital images. This paper proposed the adaptive scaling factor based on selected DWT-DCT coefficients of its image content. The adaptive scaling factor was generated based on the role of selected DWT-DCT coefficients against the average value of DWT-DCT coefficients. The watermark image was embedded by using a proposed set of rules that consider the adaptive scaling factor. The experimental results showed that the proposed scheme achieved high PSNR value of 47dB, SSIM value of about 0.987 and an embedded watermark resistance to several attacks in the watermarked image. IEEE 2021-03-29 Article PeerReviewed pdf en cc_by_4 http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33677/1/An_Improved_Image_Watermarking_by_Modifying_Selected_DWT-DCT_Coefficients.pdf Ernawan, Ferda and Ariatmanto, Dhani and Firdaus, Ahmad (2021) An Improved Image Watermarking by Modifying Selected DWT-DCT Coefficients. IEEE Access, 9 (9381211). pp. 45474-45485. ISSN 2169-3536. (Published) https://10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3067245 https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3067245
spellingShingle QA76 Computer software
Ernawan, Ferda
Ariatmanto, Dhani
Firdaus, Ahmad
An Improved Image Watermarking by Modifying Selected DWT-DCT Coefficients
title An Improved Image Watermarking by Modifying Selected DWT-DCT Coefficients
title_full An Improved Image Watermarking by Modifying Selected DWT-DCT Coefficients
title_fullStr An Improved Image Watermarking by Modifying Selected DWT-DCT Coefficients
title_full_unstemmed An Improved Image Watermarking by Modifying Selected DWT-DCT Coefficients
title_short An Improved Image Watermarking by Modifying Selected DWT-DCT Coefficients
title_sort improved image watermarking by modifying selected dwt-dct coefficients
topic QA76 Computer software
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http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33677/1/An_Improved_Image_Watermarking_by_Modifying_Selected_DWT-DCT_Coefficients.pdf