Copyright protection is considered as an issue of vital significance owing to the escalating utilization of internet and effortless copying, tampering and distribution of digital images. Digital watermarking methodologies are looked upon as a competent tool for safeguarding the digital images from copyright infringements issues. A number of researches in existence deal with copyright protection...

Nowadays, there is an explosive growth in the digital multimedia creation, capturing, processing and distribution. Protecting the multimedia contents from copyright infringement has become a major concern. Encryption and watermarking are two complementary techniques that are used for protecting the multimedia data. In this paper, a proposed hybrid encryption-watermarking algorithm for copyright...

Nowadays, there is an explosive growth in the digital multimedia creation, capturing, processing and distribution. Protecting the multimedia contents from copyright infringement has become a major concern. Encryption and watermarking are two complementary techniques that are used for protecting the multimedia data. In this paper, a proposed hybrid encryption-watermarking algorithm for copyright...

Digital image watermarking is receiving widespread attention to protect applications of intellectual property rights. In image watermarking, information is embedded in cover image to prove ownership. This information must remain detectable even if image is manipulated. Applications of digital image watermarking include trusted cameras, journalistic photography, prevention of identity photo forg...

Nowadays, there is an explosive growth in the digital multimedia creation, capturing, processing and distribution. Protecting the multimedia contents from copyright infringement has become a major concern. Encryption and watermarking are two complementary techniques that are used for protecting the multimedia data. In this paper, a proposed hybrid encryption-watermarking algorithm for copyright...

Development of digital content has increased the necessity of copyright protection by means of watermarking. Imperceptibility and robustness are two important features of watermarking algorithms. The goal of watermarking methods is to satisfy the tradeoff between these two contradicting characteristics. Recently watermarking methods in transform domains have displayed favorable results. In this...

By expansion of digital multimedia and networking technology, the problem of ownership protection has become increasingly important. Digital watermarking is an efficient way for copyright protection of digital images. Traditional watermarking techniques degrade the quality of host image by embedding a watermark logo. Facing this problem, a new watermarking approach called zero-watermarking has ...

Digital Watermarking allows an individual to add some hidden copyright notices or other verification messages to digital media, where message is a group of bits describing the information pertaining to the signal or its author. For this purpose, two techniques viz. global watermarking and local watermarking can be used. In this paper, the performance of two feature based global and local waterm...

Digital watermarking is the process of embedding data (comprising the watermark), ideally imperceptibly, into a host signal (the coversignal) to create a stegosignal. Although the term “coversignal” is commonly used in watermarking literature (Cox, Miller, & Bloom, 2002) to denote the host signal (data to be protected), the name used for the watermarked result, the “stegosignal,” is borrowed fr...

A good watermarking scheme should be able to perform equally well on all types of images irrespective of image contents because practically watermarking has to be applied to images of all types. In this paper, it is shown that in wavelet based spread spectrum technique, watermarking at level 1 decomposition is better for textured images while watermarking at level 2 decomposition is better for ...