Independent component analysis applied to digital image watermarking

The authors propose a new solution to the watermarking of digital images. This approach uses independent component analysis (ICA) to project the image into a basis with its components as statistically independent as possible. The watermark is then introduced in this representation of the space. Thus, the change of basis is the key of the steganography problem. The algorithm applied to the fragile watermarking problem locates any change in the image since it also applies to the watermark. The problem of robust watermarking is also addressed from this new point of view. Some results are included to illustrate the method