A Human Visual System-Based Blind Image Watermarking Scheme in the IWT-APDCBT Domain Integrating Geometric and Non-Geometric Distortion Correction Techniques

This work presents a robust digital image watermarking scheme to protect digital images from illegal usage and manipulations. The excellent re-constructional attributes of integer wavelets transform (IWT) coefficients are fused with all phase discrete cosine bi-orthogonal transform (APDCBT), which h...

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Published in:Arabian journal for science and engineering (2011) 2024-03, Vol.49 (3), p.3979-4003
Main Authors: Barlaskar, Saharul Alom, Kirupakaran, Anish Monsley, Laskar, Rabul Hussain
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Digital imaging
Digital watermarking
Distortion
Engineering
Humanities and Social Sciences
Image quality
multidisciplinary
Research Article-Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Robustness
Science
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Summary:This work presents a robust digital image watermarking scheme to protect digital images from illegal usage and manipulations. The excellent re-constructional attributes of integer wavelets transform (IWT) coefficients are fused with all phase discrete cosine bi-orthogonal transform (APDCBT), which helps preserve the image's visual quality. Human visual system (HVS) parameters help to choose an optimal watermarking region to improve image imperceptibility to a greater extent. To achieve better watermark robustness in diverse attack conditions (in the presence of geometric and non-geometric attacks), we proposed two stages distortion correction technique for restoring watermarked geometry followed by a non-geometric correction. Geometric distortion correction (GDC) techniques have been implemented in a deep framework employing a pre-trained network of MobileNet-V2, customized to perform the task of a regressor to handle diverse geometric attacks. Statistical non-geometric correction technique addresses the non-geometric attack and restores the deviated coefficient values without considering any other local characteristics of the watermarked image. This method provides adequate image imperceptibility as well as satisfactory robustness of the watermark under both attack conditions. Also, the technique can give an average imperceptibility (in PSNR) of ~ 49.03 dB with a payload of 1024 bits. The experimental results suggest that the proposed scheme is secure and provides enhanced performance compared to existing techniques.
ISSN:2193-567X
1319-8025
2191-4281
DOI:10.1007/s13369-023-08261-2