FPGA Implementation of Digital Images Watermarking System Based on Discrete Haar Wavelet Transform

In this paper we propose a novel and efficient hardware implementation of an image watermarking system based on the Haar Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). DWT is used in image watermarking to hide secret pieces of information into a digital content with a good robustness. The main advantage of Haar...

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Published in:Security and communication networks 2019-01, Vol.2019 (2019), p.1-17
Main Authors: Mtibaa, Abdellatif, Ben Abdelali, Abdessalem, Gafsi, Mohamed, Hajjaji, Mohamed Ali
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Design
Digital imaging
Digital watermarking
Discrete Wavelet Transform
Field programmable gate arrays
Hardware
Robustness
Software
Spread spectrum
Telemedicine
Very large scale integration
Visibility
Wavelet transforms
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Summary:In this paper we propose a novel and efficient hardware implementation of an image watermarking system based on the Haar Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). DWT is used in image watermarking to hide secret pieces of information into a digital content with a good robustness. The main advantage of Haar DWT is the frequencies separation into four subbands (LL, LH, HL, and HH) which can be treated independently. This permits ensuring a better compromise between robustness and visibility factors. A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) that is based on a very large scale integration architecture of the watermarking algorithm is developed to accelerate media authentication. A hardware cosimulation strategy using the Matlab-Xilinx system generator (XSG) was applied to prove the validity of the suggested implementation. The hardware cosimulation results show the effectiveness of the developed architecture in terms of visibility and robustness against several attacks. The proposed hardware system presents also a high performance in terms of the operating speed.
ISSN:1939-0114
1939-0122
DOI:10.1155/2019/1294267