An image fusion based visible watermarking algorithm

Although the need for visible watermarking for copyright notification is apparent, visible watermarking has received much less attention than invisible watermarking. In this paper, we present a general framework for performing visible watermarking based on some concepts of image fusion. Especially, we introduce a new visible watermarking algorithm in which the watermarked coefficients are computed using global as well as local characteristics of both the host and watermark images.