Title :
Error diffusion halftone image watermarking based on SVD-DWT technique
Author :
Amini, Marzieh ; Yaghmaie, Khashayar ; Sadreazami, Hamidreza
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Semnan, Semnan, Iran
Abstract :
In this paper, a new halftone image watermarking is presented based on digital wavelet transform combined with singular value decomposition technique. Halftoning is the process of representing grayscale images using just black and white i.e. binary levels. The original image is an error diffusion halftone image which is decomposed into 2-level wavelet transform. In the second level of wavelet transform, the subband with the midst variance intensity is selected as a place for inserting the watermark. The singular value decomposing is applied to this selected subband and watermark image. The embedding modification is done by combining singular value of selected subband with singular value of watermark image. In extraction process, detector response is computed to obtain the original watermark. Experimental results show good robustness against some common signal processing attacks.
Keywords :
discrete wavelet transforms; image representation; image watermarking; singular value decomposition; DWT technique; SVD; error diffusion; grayscale image representation; halftone image watermarking; signal processing; singular value decomposition; wavelet transform; Detectors; Robustness; Signal processing algorithms; Singular value decomposition; Watermarking; Wavelet transforms; Digital Wavelet transform; Halftone Binary Image Watermarking; Singular Value Decomposition;
Conference_Titel :
Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP), 2010 6th Iranian
Conference_Location :
Isfahan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9706-5
DOI :
10.1109/IranianMVIP.2010.5941170