A study of biorthogonal wavelets in digital watermarking

Author

Marusic, Slaven ; Tay, David B H ; Deng, Guang ; Palaniswami, Marimuthu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., La Trobe Univ., Bundoora, Vic., Australia

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

14-17 Sept. 2003

Abstract

A study of a family of biorthogonal wavelet filters for use in digital watermarking is presented. The filters are explicitly parametrized by two free parameters and can be used to provide diversity in watermarking. Diversity can be used to improve the security of the watermarking system from hostile attacks. Each filter has at least two vanishing moments, which is important for ensuring some degree of smoothness in the resulting wavelet function. Along with robustness and security, other factors, which impact upon the successful implementation of the filters in a watermarking application are analysed. The relationship between the strength of the inserted watermark and wavelet energy is also discussed.

Keywords

filtering theory; image coding; watermarking; wavelet transforms; biorthogonal wavelet filters; digital watermarking; hostile attacks; vanishing moments; wavelet function; Copyright protection; Digital filters; Diversity methods; Low pass filters; Robustness; Security; Tiles; Watermarking; Wavelet coefficients; Wavelet transforms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 2003. ICIP 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on

ISSN

1522-4880

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7750-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.2003.1246717

Filename

1246717