Optimal blind watermarking for color images based on the U matrix of quaternion singular value decomposition

In this paper, a new blind watermarking for copyright protection of color images based on the U matrix through Quaternion Singular Value Decomposition (QSVD) is proposed. The proposed method represents the color image with a quaternion matrix, so that it can deal with the multichannel information in a holistic way. Then the array of pure quaternion is divided into non-overlapping blocks and we perform QSVD on each block to get its U matrix. The watermark is inserted into the optimally selected coefficients of the quaternion elements in the first column of the U matrix. Besides, in the procedures of watermark insertion and extraction, ensuring higher fidelity and robustness to several possible image attacks have been considered. The experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms existing schemes in terms of robustness and invisibility.     

基于四元数模型和奇异值分解的图像水印算法

将四元数离散余弦变换（QDCT）和奇异值分解（SVD）相结合,提出了一种在彩色图像中嵌入水印的新方法。首先,借助Arnold置乱对二值水印进行预处理,应用四元数理论将彩色图像进行分块QDCT和SVD;然后,利用Logistic映射随机抽取一批图像块实现水印的嵌入。实验表明,该方法具有较强的抗JPEG压缩能力,对各种噪声和滤波等具有较好的鲁棒性。     

A blind audio watermarking based on singular value decomposition and quantization

International Journal of Speech Technology - In this work, we have proposed a robust audio watermarking technique in which a binary image is embedded into a host audio signal for copyright...     

一种新的基于奇异值分解的小波域盲水印*

目前,如何增强鲁棒性水印抵抗几何攻击尤其是旋转攻击的鲁棒性,仍是水印研究者研究的难点。为此,结合奇异值分解的特性和小波变换的优点,提出一种新的基于奇异值分解的小波域盲水印算法,对于常见的几何攻击具有很强的鲁棒性。首先对小波分解后的低频子带分块以提高水印的嵌入容量,再对各子块进行奇异值分解,将Arnold置乱后的水印嵌入到奇异值中,并使用量化方法增强水印的鲁棒性。实验表明,该算法对于常见的几何攻击特别是旋转攻击具有很强的鲁棒性,也能够抵抗JPEG2000压缩等信号处理。     

A blind double color image watermarking algorithm based on QR decomposition

In this paper, a novel blind image watermarking scheme based on QR decomposition is proposed to embed color watermark image into color host image, which is significantly different from using the binary or gray image as watermark. When embedding watermark, the 24-bits color host image with size of 512?×?512 is divided into non-overlapping 4?×?4 pixel blocks and each pixel block is decomposed by QR. Then, according to the watermark information and the relation between the second row first column coefficient and the third row first column coefficient in the unitary matrix Q, the 24-bits color watermark image with size of 32?×?32 is embedded into the color host image. In addition, the new element compensatory method is used in the upper-triangle matrix R for reducing the visible distortion. When extracting watermark, only the watermarked image is needed. Compared with other SVD-based methods, the proposed method does not have the false-positive detection problem and has lower computational complexity, that is, the average running time of the proposed method only needs 1.481403 s. The experimental results show that the proposed method is robust against most common attacks including JPEG compression, JPEG 2000 compression, low-pass filtering, cropping, adding noise, blurring, rotation, scaling and sharpening et al. Compared with some related existing methods, the proposed algorithm has stronger robustness and better invisibility.     

A semi-blind digital watermarking scheme based on singular value decomposition

This paper presents a robust watermarking approach for hiding grayscale watermarks into digital images. Plugging the codebook concept into the singular value decomposition (SVD), the proposed method embeds the singular values (SVs) of the original image into the watermark one to attain the lossless objective. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme guarantees the extracted watermark on an average and the worst PSNR values of 24.91 and 19.96 dB, respectively. In addition to the guarantee of the quality of extracted watermark image, the security of the referenced watermark is further strengthened by applying chaos permutation on it in advance. The proposed scheme leads to satisfactory robustness to various attacks and is compared to other well-known grayscale watermarking methods to reveal its efficiency for practical applications.     

基于奇异值分解的彩色图像水印算法

针对基于量化的嵌入方法不能抵抗亮度增强等攻击而基于关系的嵌入方法抵抗常见的攻击能力较弱等缺点, 提出了一种混合量化和关系嵌入方法的彩色图像水印算法。该算法先对彩色图像的每一分量进行互不重叠的大小为8×8的分块, 借助密钥选取待嵌入水印的分块并对选取的分块进行1级离散小波变换和分别对低频子带与高频子带进行奇异值分解, 在低频和高频子带奇异值分解后的奇异值矩阵分别采用量化和关系的嵌入策略嵌入预处理后的水印。实验表明, 该算法实现简单, 具有较好的不可见性。与其他算法相比, 该算法具有更好的鲁棒性能。     

双正交提升小波和奇异值分解的彩色水印算法研究

在现有彩色图像水印提取技术基础上, 提出一种结合9/7双正交提升小波和图像矩阵奇异值分解的彩色图像水印加密算法。首先将彩色原始图像和彩色水印图像R、G、B分离, 将图像相应分量进行提升小波三级分解得到低频部分, 并将该低频信息进行奇异值分解, 把水印信息视做扰动矩阵按一定的量加在低频信息的对角阵上, 其中彩色水印图像预处理结合了骑士巡游变换和Arnold置乱算法。实验结果表明算法在确保水印不可见性的基础上有效地增强了水印的强度和鲁棒性, 实现了水印图像的盲检验。     

基于多维标度和奇异值分解的视频水印算法

针对于网络中的视频资源的知识产权问题,提出一种基于多维标度(MDS)和奇异值分解( SVD)的视频水印算法。该方法首先利用MDS把原始视频各帧投影到二维平面上,然后利用SVD的方法把水印信息嵌入到视频帧与其在二维平面上投影点之间的差值上。实验证明,该算法对随机噪声干扰和诸如旋转、平移、裁剪等空间同步失真的攻击有较强的鲁棒性;另外,该算法对帧丢弃、帧插入等时间同步失真也具有一定程度的鲁棒性。     

基于哈达玛变换和奇异分解的四个彩色图像水印算法

针对在某一数字产品中仅仅嵌入一种水印已经不能满足人们要求的问题,基于哈达玛变换的正交原理和奇异分解(SVD)的相对稳定性等优点,提出了一种在基于离散小波变换-离散余弦变换(DWT-DCT)域上利用哈达玛变换和SVD实现4个彩色图像水印同时嵌入的算法。先利用哈达玛变换,使4个水印成为1个水印,再将该水印进行SVD。原载体图像先进行DWT和DCT,再进行SVD和水印嵌入。仿真结果表明,该方法不但可以同时嵌入多个水印,而且具有很强的鲁棒性。     

High payload multi-channel dual audio watermarking algorithm based on discrete wavelet transform and singular value decomposition

Digital watermarking technology is concerned with solving the problem of copyright protection, data authentication, content identification, distribution, and duplication of the digital media due to the great developments in computers and Internet technology. Recently, protection of digital audio signals has attracted the attention of researchers. This paper proposes a new audio watermarking scheme based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT), singular value decomposition (SVD), and quantization index modulation (QIM) with a synchronization code embedded with two encrypted watermark images or logos inserted into a stereo audio signal. In this algorithm, the original audio signal is split into blocks, and each block is decomposed with a two-level DWT, and then the approximate low-frequency sub-band coefficients are decomposed by SVD transform to obtain a diagonal matrix. The prepared watermarking and synchronization code bit stream is embedded into the diagonal matrix using QIM. After that, we perform inverse singular value decomposition (ISVD) and inverse discrete wavelet transform (IDWT) to obtain the watermarked audio signal. The watermark can be blindly extracted without knowledge of the original audio signal. Experimental results show that the transparency and imperceptibility of the proposed algorithm is satisfied, and that robustness is strong against popular audio signal processing attacks. High watermarking payload is achieved through the proposed scheme.     

Attack on a semi-blind watermarking scheme based on singular value decomposition

In this paper, we show that a recently proposed robust watermarking scheme by Shieh et al. does not bind a cover image to a watermark, therefore cannot be used for proof of ownership applications. The problem lies in the use of singular value decomposition (SVD) for this binding.     

A robust video watermarking algorithm based on singular value decomposition and slope-based embedding technique

In this work, we propose a robust watermarking algorithm for video copyright protection. The proposed algorithm is characterized by four key features. First, a robust feature obtained by singular value decomposition is selected to embed the watermark. Second, a novel slope-based embedding technique is developed to embed a 1-bit watermark into several successive blocks in the temporal direction, thus enhancing the robustness against global attacks. Third, an embedding location selection method is used to give priority to blocks with small variations that can enhance the visual quality of the watermarked video. Fourth, a temporal synchronization method is introduced to effectively withstand temporal synchronization attacks. The experimental results demonstrate that our scheme has good imperceptibility and is robust against various attacks, such as noise addition, filtering, gamma correction, lossy compression, scaling, frame dropping, frame insertion, and frame averaging. Furthermore, the watermark can be extracted using only some side information rather than the original video, which makes the scheme more practical.     

基于整数小波变换和SVD的视频水印算法

提出了一种以二值图像为水印的混合整数小波变换和奇异值分解的视频水印盲提取算法。对水印图像进行混沌加密和Arnold置乱处理,选择计算复杂度低的直方图算法将视频分割为若干场景;借助密钥随机选取某些场景的亮度分量进行l级整数小波变换,再对低频子带进行分块的奇异值分解;采用量化的方法,将预处理后的水印图像嵌入奇异值分解后的最大奇异值中。在嵌入了水印的视频场景中提取所有的水印版本之后,利用对提取的所有水印信号版本进行统计求和的方法得到最终提取的水印图像。实验表明,提出的算法具有较好的透明性,对常见的处理具有较好的鲁棒性。     

两种基于奇异值分解的图像水印算法的比较研究

奇异值分解在图像水印算法中有着广泛的应用,但是也存在高虚警率的缺陷。讨论分析了空域和变换域中经典的奇异值分解水印算法和最近报道的基于主成分的改进算法。通过实验验证了改进算法的有效性。     

Audio watermarking in transform domain based on singular value decomposition and Cartesian-polar transformation

This paper presents an audio watermarking scheme in fast Fourier transform (FFT) domain based on singular value decomposition (SVD) and Cartesian-polar transformation (CPT). In our proposed scheme, initially the original audio is segmented into nonoverlapping frames. FFT is applied to each frame and low frequency FFT coefficients are selected. SVD is applied to the selected FFT coefficients of each frame represented in a matrix form. The highest singular values of each frame are selected and are decomposed into two components using CPT. Watermark information is embedded into each of these CPT components using an embedding function. Experimental results indicate that the proposed watermarking scheme is highly robust against various signal processing attacks. In addition, the proposed scheme has a high data payload. Moreover, it outperforms state-of-the-art audio watermarking methods in terms of imperceptibility, robustness, and data payload.     

A color value differentiation scheme for blind digital image watermarking

Multimedia Tools and Applications - In order to contribute to the security of medical image, we present in this paper a blind and robust watermarking technique that allows the integration of the...     

Color image watermarking based on singular value decomposition and generalized regression neural network

Multimedia Tools and Applications - In this paper, a novel singular value decomposition (SVD) based color image watermarking scheme is proposed. Each color image block is processed by converting it...     

基于位平面理论和奇异值分解的鲁棒零水印算法

针对灰度图像空域算法中水印鲁棒性较差的问题,提出了一种快速、鲁棒性强的零水印算法,并将该算法用于以数字图像为载体的信息隐藏,以实现水印信息的提取和认证。首先利用位平面(BP)理论将图像解析为不同的位平面层次,构造无权值的位平面矩阵,结合各位平面非零值个数生成图像的特征矩阵;然后对特征矩阵分块操作,利用奇异值分解(SVD)生成块最大奇异值矩阵,并通过对生成矩阵二维混沌加密得到注册零水印信息。仿真实验表明,所提算法具有较强的鲁棒性,在同类算法中对抗椒盐噪声攻击的性能提高了6%,对抗常见混合攻击的性能提高了12%。     

基于奇异值分解和Contourlet变换的图像水印算法

在分析抵抗几何攻击的几种方法以及Contourle变换的特点基础上,提出了一种基于Contourlet变换的水印算法.图像进行Contourle变换后,对各子带进行奇异值分解,选择所有子带奇异值中较大的数据作为水印植入点,这样将水印分散植入各个子带中,提高抗攻击能力.实验结果表明,该算法能够抵抗加噪和剪裁等攻击,具有较强的鲁棒性,提高了水印识别的可靠性.