Title :
A reversible image watermarking in Hadamard domain
Author :
Pakdaman, Zahra ; Saryazdi, Saeid ; Nezamabadi-pour, Hossein
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
Abstract :
Reversible Watermarking is a special kind of the blind data hiding techniques which allows recovering both the watermark and the original image. In this article, a new reversible watermarking scheme based on a reversible Hadamard transform is proposed. In the proposed method, after calculating the image´s reversible Hadamard transform, the watermark is embedded using prediction error coefficients. The proposed method does not need any location map. This property permits to increase the capacity. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, a comparative experiment with some well-known reversible methods is performed. The obtained results confirm the efficiency of the method.
Keywords :
Hadamard matrices; Hadamard transforms; data encapsulation; error statistics; image watermarking; Hadamard domain; blind data hiding techniques; prediction error coefficients; reversible Hadamard transform; reversible image watermarking; Equations; Frequency estimation; Image coding; Image reconstruction; Prediction algorithms; Transforms; Watermarking; prediction error expansion; reversible Hadamard transform; reversible watermarking;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Knowledge Technology (IKT), 2013 5th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shiraz
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6489-8
DOI :
10.1109/IKT.2013.6620109