Self Authentication of image through Daubechies Transform technique (SADT)

In this paper a 4 x 4 Daubechies transform based authentication technique termed as SADT has been proposed to authenticate gray scale images. The cover image is transformed into the frequency domain using 4 x 4 mask in a row major order using Daubechies transform technique, resulting four frequency subbands AF, HF, VF and DF. One byte of every band in a mask is embedding with two/four bits of secret information. Experimental results are computed and compared with the existing authentication techniques like Li’s method [5], SCDFT [6], Region-Based method [7] and other similar techniques based on Mean Square Error (MSE), Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Image Fidelity (IF), which shows better performance in SADT. Keywords-authentication; frequency domain; Daubechies transform; SADT; Mean Square Error (MSE); Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR); Image fidelity (IF).