A multibit geometrically robust image watermark based on Zernike moments

In image watermarking, the watermark robustness to geometric transformations is still an open problem. Using invariant image features to carry the watermark is an effective approach to addressing this problem. In this paper, a multibit geometrically robust image watermarking algorithm using Zernike...

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Main Authors: Yongqing Xin, Liao, S., Pawlak, M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Additive noise
Computer science
Decoding
Error analysis
Image coding
Image reconstruction
Noise robustness
Protection
Transform coding
Watermarking
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Summary:In image watermarking, the watermark robustness to geometric transformations is still an open problem. Using invariant image features to carry the watermark is an effective approach to addressing this problem. In this paper, a multibit geometrically robust image watermarking algorithm using Zernike moments is proposed. Some Zernike moments of an image are selected, and their magnitudes are dither-modulated to embed an array of bits. The watermarked image is obtained via reconstruction from the modified moments and those left intact. In watermark extraction, the embedded bits are estimated from the invariant magnitudes of the Zernike moments using a minimum distance decoder. Simulation results show that the hidden message can be decoded at low error rates, robust against image rotation, scaling and flipping, and as well, a variety of other distortions such as lossy compression.
ISSN:1051-4651
2831-7475
DOI:10.1109/ICPR.2004.1333908