A Reversible Watermarking Algorithm Resistant to Image Geometric Transformation

Jian Li, Jinwei Wang, Shuang Yu, Xiangyang Luo

OAI: oai:igi-global.com:215325 • DOI: 10.4018/IJDCF.2019010108

This article proposes a novel robust reversible watermarking algorithm. The proposed watermarking scheme is reversible because the original image can be recovered after extracting watermarks from the watermarked image, as long as it is not processed by an attacker. The scheme is robust because watermarks can still be extracted from watermarked images, even if it is undergone some malicious or normal operations like rotation and JPEG compression. It first selects two circles, which are centred at the centroid and the centre of image. Then, statistic quantities of these two circles are employed for robust watermark embedding by altering the pixels' value. The side information generated by above embedding process will be embedded as fragile watermarks at another stage to ensure the recovery of original image. Experimental results verify the high performance of the proposed algorithm in resisting various attacks, including JPEG compression and geometric transformation.

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