Novel watermarking scheme for image authentication using vector quantization approach

In this paper a new invisible watermarking algorithm using vector quantization (VQ) approach for image content authentication application is proposed. At the first stage, a robust verification watermark is embedded using properties of indices of vector quantized image using key based approach. At the second stage, the semi-fragile watermark is embedded by using modified index key based (MIKB) method. Robust watermark andVQenhance the security of the system by providing its double protection. The semi-fragile watermark is utilized for the authentication of the received image. Blind extraction of the watermark is performed independently in two successive steps i.e. in the order of embedding. Further, in oder to classify quantitatively an incidental or intentional attack, which at present is not being followed, a quantitative threshold approach using pixel neighborhood clustering is suggested. The existing methods employ the qualitative approach of identifying incidental or intentional attacks. Imperceptibility of watermarked image is 41 dB on the average, and it is also possible to detect and locate tamper with very high sensitivity. The present scheme is compared with the existing algorithms. The performance of proposed algorithm has been tested on various practical images. It outperforms in distinguishing malicious tampering from content preserving changes and the tampered regions are accurately localized.     

一种新的基于遗传算法DCT域半脆弱水印算法

半脆弱水印因为在多媒体内容认证方面的重要作用而受到人们密切的关注。为了能够区分偶然攻击与恶意篡改,半脆弱水印需要对一般的内容保护图像操作有一定的鲁棒性。基于此,提出了遗传算法的半脆弱数字图像水印方法。根据图像局部区域的类型自适应地确定图像局部区域的水印嵌入强度,GA用来优化水印的嵌入位置。实验结果证实了所提的算法的优点,表明该方法具有较好的不可见性和鲁棒性,并实现了印刷图像载体版权保护。     

图像内容真实性认证的半易损水印方案研究

提出一种基于半易损的图像内容真实性认证方案。该算法既对不改变图像内容的一般性操作具有较好的顽健性，又能对改变图像内容的篡改操作具有较强的敏感性。在水印图像进行一般性处理后能够借助水印差别国和滑动窗检测并定位被篡改的区域。本文还从概率论的角度给出了精确的判决门限确定公式。仿真试验采用一般性操作和篡改操作相结合的方法，实验结果表明本文算法在保护数字图像内容真实性方面是可行的。     

基于自适应半脆弱水印的图像篡改检测方案

为保护数字图像版权和检测恶意篡改,实现高精度篡改定位,在充分挖掘图像特性的基础上,设计一种基于自适应半脆弱水印技术的图像篡改检测算法。算法根据感知特性将水印自适应嵌入到图像LSBs中,利用多数原则恢复水印信号,结合数学形态学滤波进行篡改检测与定位。仿真实验证实了该方案的有效性,在抵抗通常的内容保持攻击操作的同时,能实现精准篡改检测与定位。     

A new semi-fragile image watermarking with robust tampering restoration using irregular sampling

This paper presents a semi-fragile watermarking method for the automatic authentication and restoration of the content of digital images. Semi-fragile watermarks are embedded into the original image, which reflect local malicious tampering on the image. When tampered blocks are detected, the restoration problem is formulated as an irregular sampling problem. These blocks are then reconstructed, making use of the information embedded in the same watermarked image, through iterative projections onto convex sets. In contrast to previous methods, the restoration process is robust to common image processing operations such as lossy transcoding and image filtering. Simulation results showed that the scheme keeps the probability of false alarm to a minimum while maintaining the data integrity of the restored images.     

Semi-fragile watermarking for grayscale image authentication and tamper detection based on an adjusted expanded-bit multiscale quantization-based technique

In this work, a semi-fragile watermarking scheme, for grayscale image authentication and tamper detection, is proposed. The proposed watermarking scheme is based on implementing a modified DWT quantization-based algorithm by embedding a random watermark bit sequence into the DWT domain using an expanded-bit multiscale quantization-based technique with adjusted watermarked location. Here, the watermark bit is expanded into three similar bits and embedded in a multiscale fashion into the DWT low-frequency subbands of the 2nd DWT levels (LL2, LL_HL1 and LL_LH1). An adjustment of the quantized coefficients is provided based on modifying their values to fall in more secure locations within the quantization interval. Several designed criteria were used to judge the received image by classifying it into: authenticated, incidentally or maliciously attacked with high accuracy in detecting and classifying attacks. Experimental results have shown the suitability of the proposed approach for tamper detection and accurate authentication.     

用于图像篡改定位和恢复的分层半脆弱数字水印算法

设计并实现了一种基于分层的半脆弱数字水印算法,用于图像内容完整性认证,篡改定位和恢复。在嵌入方,将水印信息嵌入到原始图像所有像素的2bit最低有效比特,其中认证水印由奇偶校验码和块与子块之间灰度平均值的比较组成;恢复水印为环面自同构映射块的平均灰度值。在检测方,采用分层思想,分3层对水印进行篡改定位和恢复。实验结果表明,该算法对局部发生的篡改可以有效地检测,精确定位并进行内容恢复,同时能够有效的抵抗矢量量化攻击。     

用于图像认证的小波域半易损水印算法

提出了一种新颖的用于图像认证的半易损水印算法,该算法提取图像在小波低频域的特征信息生成两个水印,一个水印主要用于篡改定位,另一个水印主要用于区分图像所经历的偶然修改和恶意篡改,从而提供了一种有效的图像选择认证机制.此外,该算法的水印生成和嵌入都在图像本身中进行,图像认证时不需要原始图像和任何有关水印的附加信息,从而提高了水印的安全性和保密性.实验结果表明,此算法能很好地将对图像内容的恶意篡改和偶然修改区分开来,并可以给出内容篡改的位置.     

基于JPEG XR的半脆弱数字水印技术研究

研究并实现基于JPEG XR图像稳定性和内容认证的半脆弱数字水印技术。对JPEG XR图像的频率结构和码流结构进行了分析和研究,提取码流中每个分割块的DC系数和LP系数构造基于图像的二值信息,作为数字水印置乱后嵌入到原图像对应像素点YUV色彩空间的Y分量的最低有效位中,然后再对含有水印的图像进行JPEG XR再编码实现水印嵌入。通过比较基于图像的二值信息和嵌入在图像的二值水印信息,进行篡改定位。对含水印图像进行压缩、噪声、剪切等常见攻击实验,结果表明具有较好的稳定性和内容认证能力。     

一种基于小波变换的图像完整性验证水印算法

针对现有的图像完整性验证水印技术,提出了一种小波域的图像完整性验证水印算法,该算法对小波系数块进行均值量化来实现二值水印信息的嵌入,在鲁棒性和脆弱性方面达到很好的平衡。仿真实验结果证明,该算法能抗常规的非恶意攻击,对于恶意攻击具有很强的识别和定位能力。     

Multi-symbol QIM video watermarking

This paper introduces the theoretical framework allowing for the binary quantization index modulation (QIM) embedding techniques to be extended towards multiple-symbol QIM (m-QIM, where m stands for the number of symbols on which the mark is encoded prior to its embedding). The underlying detection method is optimized with respect to the minimization of the average error probability, under the hypothesis of white, additive Gaussian behavior for the attacks. This way, for prescribed transparency and robustness constraints, the data payload is increased by a factor of log₂m.m-QIM is experimentally validated under the frameworks of the MEDIEVALS French national project and of the SPY ITEA2 European project, related to MPEG-4 AVC robust and semi-fragile watermarking applications, respectively. The experiments are three-folded and consider the data payload–robustness–transparency tradeoff. In the former case, the main benefit is the increase of data payload by a factor of log₂m while keeping fixed robustness (variations lower than 3% of the bit error rate after additive noise, transcoding and Stirmark random bending attacks) and transparency (set to average PSNR=45 dB and 65 dB for SD and HD encoded content, respectively). The experiments consider 1 h of video content. In the semi-fragile watermarking case, the m-QIM main advantage is a relative gain factor of 0.11 of PSNR for fixed robustness (against transcoding), fragility (to content alteration) and the data payload. The experiments consider 1 h 20 min of video content.     

版权保护和内容认证的全盲双功能数字水印算法

针对现有大部分水印算法功能单一且无法实现完全盲检测的局限性,提出一种同时进行版权保护和内容认证的全盲双功能数字水印算法.算法采取子块区域分割的思想,水印产生和嵌入分别利用同一个子块的不同区域.通过判别两个最大奇异值均值的最高位奇偶性产生特征水印,然后自适应地调整相邻区域相同位置的两个离散余弦变换交流系数的大小,实现水印的嵌入.检测端通过产生的特征水印和盲提取的认证水印实现全盲的版权鉴别和内容认证.相比于已报道的一些水印方案,本文提出的水印算法对于常见的攻击具有更好的顽健性,可以实现版权保护功能,同时对于恶意的图像篡改又有较好的敏感性,可以准确定位篡改的区域.     

基于奇异值分解的半易损水印算法

随着数字图像在报刊杂志、医院、法庭中的广泛应用，越来越需要一种有效的图像认证方法，数字水印技术为上述问题提供了一个潜在的解决方案。本文提出了一种基于分组奇异值分解（SVD）的半易损水印技术，算法将经过伪随机排序的二值图像通过量化策略嵌入到分组SVD分解中最大的奇异值点，提取水印信号无需使用原始图像。仿真实验表明水印是不可察觉的，可将JPEG有损压缩同恶意攻击区分开来，能够准确地定位被篡改的图像内容。     

Gauss–Jordan elimination-based image tampering detection and self-recovery

This paper proposes a novel Gauss–Jordan elimination-based image tampering detection and self-recovery scheme, aiming at dealing with the problem of malicious tampering on digital images. To deal with the copy–move tampering which is challenging because the tampered region may contain the watermark information, we propose the Improved Check Bits Generation algorithm during watermark generation, to generate the check bits for tampering detection. Meanwhile, the recovery bits are reconstructed according to the fundamental of Gauss–Jordan Elimination, for purpose of image contents self-recovery. To improve the accuracy of detection and the quality of recovered images, we propose the Morphological Processing-Based Enhancement method and the Edge Extension preprocessing respectively during and after the tampering detection Finally, the Gauss–JordanElimination-Based Self-Recovery method is proposed to recover the damaged content mathematically on basis of the detected results. By employing the unchanged recovery bits which are embedded in the non-tampered region, the failure in recovery caused by the damaged recovery bits can be completely avoided. A large number of experiments have been conducted to show the very good performance of the proposed scheme. The precision, recall, and F1 score are calculated for evaluation of tampering detection, while the PSNR values are calculated for evaluation of image recovery. The comparisons with the state-of-the-art methods show that the proposed scheme shows the superiorities in terms of imperceptibility, security and recovery capability. The experimental result indicates the average PSNR of recovered image is 44.415dB.     

Recover the tampered image based on VQ indexing

In this paper, a tampered image recovery scheme is proposed by creating an index table of the original image via vector quantization (VQ) and embedding it into the original image as a basis for recovery. In order to complete the goal of image authentication and recovery, Wong's watermarking scheme [P.W. Wong, N. Memon, Secret an public key image watermarking schemes for image authentication and ownership verification, IEEE Trans. Image Process 10 (10) (2001) 1593–1601] is employed to perform tamper detection. Wong's watermarking scheme can be used to accurately locate tampered regions. If an image has been tampered, the index table can be used to recover the tampered regions. The experimental results indicate that our scheme has the higher probability of image recovery. Besides, compared with Lee and Lin's [Dual watermark for image tamper detection and recovery, Pattern Recognition 41 (2008) 3497–3506] scheme, our scheme provides not only a better quality of recovered images but also better results at edge regions.     

A novel chaos-based fragile watermarking for image tampering detection and self-recovery

In this paper, a novel watermarking approach is proposed to provide enhanced tampering localization and self-recovery. A cross chaotic map is used to confuse the blocks generated by the original image. A sister block embedding scheme is proposed to improve the recovery effect after tampering. Flags and a combination of the most significant bit (MSB) and the least significant bit (LSB) mechanism are applied to improve the tampering detection rate and the defense of attacks. And an optimization scheme is given to make the recovered image have advanced visual effects. Experiment results show that the proposed schemes are more secure and have better effect on tampering detection and recovery even though the tampered area is relatively large.     

基于Hash函数和汉明码的半脆弱水印算法

提出了一种基于Hash函数和汉明码的分散式相关块半脆弱水印算法,用于图像完整性认证及内容篡改定位。将原始图像划分为互不重叠的块,进行多次Logistic混沌映射,定位每个块的相关块,得到汉明码编码需要的bit序列;进行汉明码编码,认证图像的完整性。实验结果表明,本文方案有较好的图像保护能力,能检测和定位各种恶意篡改,例如插入、模糊、锐化、对比度修改和爆裂位,能成功抵抗VQ攻击。     

Perceptual hash-based coarse-to-fine grained image tampering forensics method

As an active forensic technology, perceptual image hash has important application in image content authenticity detection and integrity authentication. In this paper, we propose a hybrid-feature-based perceptual image hash method that can be used for image tampering detection and tampering localization. In the proposed method, we use the color features of image as global features, use point-based features and block-based features as local features, and combine with the structural features to generate intermediate hash code. Then we encrypt and randomize to generate the final hash code. Using this hash code, we present a coarse-to-fine grained forensics method for image tampering detection. The proposed method can realize object-level tampering localization. Abundant experimental results show that the proposed method is sensitive to content changes caused by malicious attacks, and the tampering localization precision achieves pixel level, and it is robust to a wide range of geometric distortions and content-preserving manipulations. Compared with the state-of-the-art schemes, the proposed scheme yields superior performance.     

Multipurpose watermarking for image authentication and protection

We propose a novel multipurpose watermarking scheme, in which robust and fragile watermarks are simultaneously embedded, for copyright protection and content authentication. By quantizing a host image's wavelet coefficients as masking threshold units (MTUs), two complementary watermarks are embedded using cocktail watermarking and they can be blindly extracted without access to the host image. For the purpose of image protection, the new scheme guarantees that, no matter what kind of attack is encountered, at least one watermark can survive well. On the other hand, for the purpose of image authentication, our approach can locate the part of the image that has been tampered with and tolerate some incidental processes that have been executed. Experimental results show that the performance of our multipurpose watermarking scheme is indeed superb in terms of robustness and fragility.     

A secure high capacity full-gray-scale-level multi-image information hiding and secret image authentication scheme via Tchebichef moments

The growth of image processing tools and applications has made it easy for multi-media content such as music, audio, and video to be manipulated or forged during transmission over the Internet. Efforts, such as information hiding in steganography, have been unable to secure data transmission and prevent its manipulation. Usage of coding theory, including cryptography, is not full proof in the sense that an unauthorized intruder may inject (tampering) and incorporate unintended data to the messages, which can tamper the transmitted data. There is a need for more transparent message information hiding schemes along with information content verification and authentication, as well as accurate tampering detection. In particular, as it is well known, in many current steganography methods, widely used for image information hiding, there are various technical challenges associated with hiding large amounts of image information in images. Some of these challenges relate to which locations, in a given carrier image, information has to be hidden in order to guarantee transparency of the resulting watermarked images, to the ability to extract hidden information accurately, to the performance of hidden secret information authentication and verification at the receiving end, to the dependency of the hidden information on a given carrier image, to the robustness of information hiding schemes to affine transformations such as rotation, and to the amount of data and number of full-scale images one can embed in a given single image carrier. Additionally, as it is well known, many of the existing stenography methods are based on the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), the Discrete Cosine Directors (DCT), or the Discrete Wavelength Transform (DWT) methods, which result in high Bit Error Rate (BER) of the extracted data. In this paper we present a secure high capacity image information hiding scheme where two full separate arbitrary full-scale gray level images (versus binary), one hidden information image and one authentication watermark image are hidden/embedded in the Tchebichef moments of a carrier image with very high imperceptibility. Here the second watermark image is used for identification and content integrity verification and authentication of the hidden secret image. Both the hidden secret hidden image and the authentication watermark image are of the same size as that of a given arbitrary carrier image. In particular, with the cost of computer memory getting lower and the bandwidth of transmission channels getting larger, we show how three different watermarked images, but the same to a naked eye, are produced and transmitted to achieve the desired advantages of high accuracy, security, authentication and verification of the recovered information. To the best of our knowledge, this two-full-scale gray images data hiding and hidden secret image information verification and authentication method is the first attempt of its sort. We show here the robustness of the proposed scheme to affine transformations such as rotation, scaling, and translation, the proposed scheme's high image malicious tampering detection and tampering localization and its high quality extracted recovered and authenticated hidden secret images. Additionally, in order to as much as possible keep the integrity of the received information, when watermarked images are rotated during transmission, a new image rotation estimation and recovery algorithm is presented as part of the proposed information hiding scheme. We show the effect of intended tampering attacks namely, cropping, noise, low-pass and high-pass filtering on the presented scheme. We also show how the extracted information accuracy is generally independent of the carrier image, and we present a mathematical analysis for characterizing the conditions under which transparency of the hidden embedded information is generally achieved for any given arbitrary carrier image. The case of how to extract the hidden information when one or two of the watermarked images is (are) lost is also tackled. Finally, experimental results on real images are presented to illustrate the efficiency and capabilities of the proposed method.