A Novel Blind Watermarking Scheme based on Quaternion and Joint SVD Blocks

In this paper, a novel blind color image watermarking technique using Quaternion and Joint QSVD Blocks is proposed to protect the intellectual property rights of color images. The proposed method tries to insert the watermark in the joint blocks .In this method, the color image is considered as an array of pure quaternion numbers. Then the array of pure quaternion is divided into non-overlapping blocks and performs QSVD to the blocks. The watermarking is inserted into the S blocks by changing the 2  of S of two adjacent blocks. Besides, in the procedure of watermark insertion and extraction, ensuring higher fidelity and robustness and resilience to several possible image attacks have been considered. The experimental results showed that the proposed method performance created watermarked images with better PSNRs and more robustness versus several attacks such as JPEG, Salt &Pepper noise, Brightness adjustment, Sharpen and Blurring.