The demand of security is getting higher in these days due to easy reproduction of digitally created multimedia data. Digital watermark is the emerging technique to embed secret information into content for copyright protection and authentication. Watermark is embedded within an image that alteration and modification to the watermarked image can be detected in a fragile watermark system. Waterm...

Security is an important performance of watermarking system. In this paper, the idea of side information is introduced into the security domain of watermarking system, and a secure fragile digital watermarking algorithm with side information is proposed associating with the idea of cryptography. In the proposed algorithm, the original image is segmented into blocks and the watermark is segmente...

Watermark design and detection have been studied as two separate problems so far. However, we show that, if the watermarking algorithm is based on the watermark detection method, then significant gains can be achieved. With a watermark detector based on a sequential hypothesis test rather than a fixed sample size test, the number of watermark pixels can be reduced almost by a factor of two for ...

A new chaotic map based IP (Intellectual Property) watermarking scheme at physical design level is presented. An encrypted watermark is embedded into the physical layout of a circuit by configuring LUT (Lookup Table) as specific functions when it is placed and routed onto the FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array). The main contribution is the use of multiple chaotic maps in the processes of wate...

In this paper, an efficiently DWT-based watermarking technique is proposed to embed gray-scale logos as watermark in images to attest the owner identification and discourage the unauthorized copying. The method transforms both the host image and watermark into the discrete wavelet domain where their coefficients are fused adaptively based on Human Visual System (HVS) model to hide a higher ener...

A novel MPEG-4 compressed domain video watermarking method is proposed and its performance is studied at video bit rates ranging from 128 to 768 kb/s. The spatial spread-spectrum watermark is embedded directly to compressed MPEG-4 bitstreams by modifying DCT coefficients. A synchronization template combats geometric attacks, such as cropping, scaling, and rotation. The method also features a ga...

In this paper a blind, Secure, imperceptible and robust watermarking algorithm based on wavelet transform domain is proposed in which for more security, the watermark W is converted to a sequence and then a random binary sequence R of size n is adopted to encrypt the watermark, where n is the size of the watermark image. Afterwards, the encrypted watermark sequence W1 is generated by executing ...

In this work we propose a Repetitive Index Modulation (RIM) based digital watermarking scheme for authentication and integrity verification of medical images. Exploiting the fact that many types of medical images have significant background areas and medically meaningful Regions of Interest (ROI), which represent the actual contents of the images, the scheme uses the contents of the ROI to crea...

In this work we propose a Repetitive Index Modulation (RIM) based digital watermarking scheme for authentication and integrity verification of medical images. Exploiting the fact that many types of medical images have significant background areas and medically meaningful Regions Of Interest (ROI), which represent the actual contents of the images, the scheme uses the contents of the ROI to crea...

A semi-blind image watermarking scheme embeds a pseudo random sequence in all the high pass DWT coefficients above a given threshold T1. The attacked DWT coefficients are then correlated with the original watermark. For watermark detection, all the coefficients higher than another threshold T2 (>T1) are chosen for correlation with the original watermark. This idea was extended to embed the same...