Copyright Protection and Annotation with Reversible Data Hiding and Adaptive Visible Watermarking

We propose a copyright annotation scheme with both the visible watermarking and reversible data hiding algorithms in this paper. It is commonly encountered that visible watermarks are embedded on purpose in one corner of an image or video clips to annotate the copyright owner of such a medium. It is usually asked by the buyer to remove the visible watermark to return to its original form who obtains such an image or video. In this paper, we propose a method to combine both the visible watermarking algorithm for copyright annotation, and reversible data hiding for recovering the original. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of our algorithm.