A new SVM-based image watermarking using Gaussian-Hermite moments

Geometric attack is known as one of the most difficult attacks to resist, for it can desynchronize the location of the watermark and hence causes incorrect watermark detection. It is a challenging work to design a robust image watermarking scheme against geometric attacks. Based on the support vector machine (SVM) and Gaussian-Hermite moments (GHMs), we propose a robust image watermarking algorithm in nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) domain with good visual quality and reasonable resistance toward geometric attacks in this paper. Firstly, the NSCT is performed on original host image, and corresponding low-pass subband is selected for embedding watermark. Then, the selected low-pass subband is divided into small blocks. Finally, the digital watermark is embedded into host image by modulating adaptively the NSCT coefficients in small block. The main steps of digital watermark detecting procedure include: (1) some low-order Gaussian-Hermite moments of training image are computed, which are regarded as the effective feature vectors; (2) the appropriate kernel function is selected for training, and a SVM training model can be obtained; (3) the watermarked image is corrected with the well trained SVM model; (4) the digital watermark is extracted from the corrected watermarked image. Experimental results show that the proposed image watermarking is not only invisible and robust against common image processing operations such as filtering, noise adding, JPEG compression, etc., but also robust against the geometric attacks.     

Novel robust image watermarking based on subsampling and DWT

This paper presents a robust digital image watermarking scheme based on subsampling and DWT. Subsampling is firstly used to construct a subimage sequence as a video segment. Then, a random watermark sequence satisfied with Gaussian distribution is block-wised embedded into the DWT domain of these subimages repeatedly using the video watermarking technique. And watermark is detected through computing correlation between watermark and watermarked frames. The experiment results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves good robustness against JPEG compression, common image processing operation and geometric distortions. Furthermore, the proposed watermarking scheme is also robust against linear collusion and other video watermarking attacks.     

Geometrically invariant image watermarking using SVR correction in NSCT domain

Based on the support vector regression (SVR) geometric distortions correction, we propose a robust image watermarking algorithm in nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) domain with good visual quality and reasonable resistance toward geometric attacks in this paper. Firstly, the NSCT is performed on original host image, and corresponding low-pass subband is selected for embedding watermark. Then, the selected low-pass subband is divided into small blocks. Finally, the digital watermark is embedded into host image by modulating the NSCT coefficients in small blocks. In digital watermark detecting procedure, the SVR geometrical distortions correction is utilized. Experimental results show that the proposed image watermarking is invisible, and robust against common image processing and some geometrical attacks.     

基于奇异值分解的、抗几何失真的数字水印算法

许多现有的适用于图像的数字水印对几何失真都是很敏感的。尤其是此类失真会严重妨碍对水印的盲提取。为此，提出了一种基于奇异值分解的数字水印算法，它对常见的几何失真是稳健的。此水印是被嵌入到图像分解后的奇异值之中。根据奇异值分解的代数性质，严格证明了嵌入了水印的图像在受到转置、镜像、旋转、放大和平移等几何失真后，其奇异值是不变的。在经过了上述的几何失真、一般的信号处理操作或JPEG压缩以后，嵌入的水印能够被可靠地提取和检测。实验结果表明本算法具有很好的稳健性。     

可有效抵抗一般性几何攻击的数字水印检测方法

以回归型支持向量机理论为基础, 结合性能稳定的伪Zernike矩和Krawtchouk矩, 提出了一种可有效抵抗一般性几何攻击的强鲁棒数字图像水印检测算法. 该算法首先选取图像的低阶Krawtchouk矩作为特征向量, 然后利用SVR对几何变换参数进行训练学习并对待检测图像进行数据预测, 最后对其进行几何校正并提取水印信息. 仿真实验结果表明, 该数字图像水印检测算法不仅具有较好的不可感知性, 而且对常规信号处理和一般性几何攻击均具有较好的鲁棒性.     

基于小波变换和神经网络的盲数字水印算法

文中提出了一种基于小波变换和神经网络的盲数字水印算法。算法嵌入的水印信息是一幅二值图像,每位水印信息被连续多次嵌入宿主图像小波分解的低频子带。利用提取含水印图像小波分解的低频子图的特征点坐标集估计水印图像遭受的几何失真,根据估计的几何失真参数对受到几何攻击的水印图像进行校正,最后利用神经网络很好的非线性映射和自适应学习功能实现水印信息的盲提取。实验表明,算法对常见的图像处理和几何攻击具有很好的鲁棒性。     

An adaptive color image watermarking using RDWT-SVD and artificial bee colony based quality metric strength factor optimization

Image watermarking has emerged as a useful method for solving security issues like authenticity, copyright protection and rightful ownership of digital data. Existing watermarking schemes use either a binary or grayscale image as a watermark. This paper proposes a new robust and adaptive watermarking scheme in which both the host and watermark are the color images of the same size and dimension. The security of the proposed watermarking scheme is enhanced by scrambling both color host and watermark images using Arnold chaotic map. The host image is decomposed by redundant discrete wavelet transform (RDWT) into four sub-bands of the same dimension, and then approximate sub-band undergoes singular value decomposition (SVD) to obtain the principal component (PC). The scrambled watermark is then directly inserted into a principal component of scrambled host image, using an artificial bee colony optimized adaptive multi-scaling factor, obtained by considering both the host and watermark image perceptual quality to overcome the tradeoff between imperceptibility and robustness of the watermarked image. The hybridization of RDWT-SVD provides an advantage of no shift-invariant to achieve higher embedding capacity in the host image and preserving the imperceptibility and robustness by exploiting SVD properties. To measure the imperceptibility and robustness of the proposed scheme, both qualitative and quantitative evaluation parameters like peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), structural similarity index metric (SSIM) and normalized cross-correlation (NC) are used. Experiments are performed against several image processing attacks and the results are analyzed and compared with other related existing watermarking schemes which clearly depict the usefulness of the proposed scheme. At the same time, the proposed scheme overcomes the major security problem of false positive error (FPE) that mostly occurs in existing SVD based watermarking schemes.     

基于DWT-SVD的奇异向量量化水印算法

提出了一种新颖的可用于版权保护的小波奇异值分解的量化水印算法。与传统的水印比特信息直接嵌入小波系数不同,水印信息被量化嵌入原始图像小波低频子带分块奇异值分解得到的奇异向量中。水印提取无需原始图像,可在密钥和量化阂值控制下实现盲提取。实验表明,含水印图像质量好且能较好地抵抗常规的图像处理,对JPEG压缩具有优异的鲁棒性。     

A novel color image watermarking scheme in nonsampled contourlet-domain

Geometric distortion is known as one of the most difficult attacks to resist, for it can desynchronize the location of the watermark and hence causes incorrect watermark detection. It is a challenging work to design a robust color image watermarking scheme against geometric distortions. Based on the support vector regression (SVR) and nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT), we propose a new color image watermarking algorithm with good visual quality and reasonable resistance toward geometric distortions in this paper. Firstly, the geometrically invariant space is constructed by using color image normalization, and a significant region is obtained from the normalized color image by utilizing the invariant centroid theory. Then, the NSCT is performed on the green channel of the significant region. Finally, the digital watermark is embedded into host color image by modifying the low frequency NSCT coefficients, in which the HVS masking is used to control the watermark embedding strength. In watermark detection, according to the high correlation among different channels of the color image, the digital watermark can be recovered by using SVR technique. Experimental results show that the proposed color image watermarking is not only invisible and robust against common image processing operations such as filtering, noise adding, and JPEG compression etc., but also robust against the geometrical distortions.     

图像块的不可见性与鲁棒性均衡水印算法

目的 为协调水印算法不可见性与鲁棒性之间的矛盾,提高水印算法抵抗几何攻击的能力,提出一种图像块的不可见性与鲁棒性均衡水印算法。方法 将宿主图像分成互不重叠的图像块,利用人类视觉系统的掩蔽特性对每个图像块的纹理特征和边缘特征进行分析,选择掩蔽性好的图像块作为嵌入子块。对嵌入子块作2级离散小波变换,将其低频子带进行奇异值分解,通过修改U矩阵第1列元素间的大小关系嵌入Arnold置乱后的水印信息。在水印提取前,对几何失真含水印图像利用图像尺度不变特征变换（SIFT）特征点的坐标关系和尺度特征进行几何校正,恢复水印的同步性。结果 对标准灰度图像进行实验,含水印图像的峰值信噪比都可以达到44 dB以上。对含水印图像进行常规攻击和几何攻击,提取出的水印图像与原始水印图像的归一化互相关系数大部分都能达到0.99以上,说明该算法不仅具有良好的不可见性,对常见攻击和几何攻击都具有较强的鲁棒性。结论 选择掩蔽性好的图像块作为水印嵌入位置能够充分保证水印算法的不可见性,特别是水印提取前利用SIFT特征点具有旋转、缩放和平移不变性对几何失真含水印图像实现有效校正,提高了含水印图像抵抗几何攻击的能力,较好地协调水印算法不可见性与鲁棒性之间的矛盾。     

基于QR分解的Contourlet域抗几何攻击水印算法

为了提高数字水印产品的抗几何攻击能力,提出一种基于QR分解的Contourlet域抗几何攻击水印算法。该算法首先对宿主图像Contourlet变换后的低频子带进行分块QR分解,通过轻微修改各子块Q矩阵第一列第二行元素和第三行元素的大小关系嵌入Arnold置乱后的水印信息,并且利用R矩阵对各子块进行相应的视觉失真补偿操作。在水印提取前,利用尺度不变特征变换SIFT特征点具有的旋转、缩放和平移不变性对几何失真含水印图像进行几何校正,恢复水印的同步性,使算法具备抵抗几何攻击的能力。实验结果表明,该算法的不可见性良好,而且对于常规攻击和多种几何攻击都具有较好的鲁棒性。     

A new robust digital watermarking based on exponent moments invariants in nonsubsampled contourlet transform domain

Geometric distortions are usually difficult for watermark to survive. It is a challenging work to design a robust image watermarking scheme against geometric distortions. Exponent moments (EMs) is a new kind of orthogonal moment defined on the circular domain. EMs are free of numerical instability so that high order moments can be computed accurately. The modulus of EMs is invariant to geometric transformation. In this paper, we propose a new robust image watermarking based on EMs invariants in nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) domain. Firstly, the NSCT, which has better directional frequency localization and a fast implementation, is applied on host image. Secondly, the EMs of the low-pass NSCT subband are computed, and the accurate EMs are selected. Finally, the digital watermark is embedded by quantizing the modulus of the selected EMs. Experimental results confirm the validity of our approach and its higher robustness against geometric distortions.     

Contourlet-based image and video watermarking robust to geometric attacks and compressions

In this paper, we first propose a new blind image watermarking scheme robust to geometric attacks and compressions. The scheme is based on contourlet transform (CT) and principal component analysis (PCA). The scheme uses the principal components of the largest contourlet coefficients of the last directional subband of the cover image to embed the watermark. Meanwhile, with the noise visibility function (NVF), the watermarking strength is adjusted adaptively to preserve the perceptual quality of the image. The watermark can be detected with high accuracy after various possible distortions. The normalized correlation (NC) between the original watermark and the watermark extracted from the distorted watermarked image is used as the robustness evaluation criterion. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme has good performance in terms of both quality and robustness against a variety of image-processing attacks, such as rotation, scaling and image compressions. Then we extend the scheme to blind video watermarking. The performance of the video watermarking scheme is evaluated against video attacks like rotation, frame averaging, noise additions and video compressions. The introduction of the CT produces robustness against image and video compressions, and the PCA yields resistance to geometric attacks.

     

基于小波矩的抗几何攻击数字图像水印算法研究

针对旋转、缩放和平移等几何攻击破坏水印检测同步,从而导致水印检测失败等问题,利用归一化图像的缩放、平移不变性及小波矩的旋转不变特性,结合奇偶量化技术,提出了一种有效抵抗几何攻击的数字图像水印新算法。首先利用图像归一化技术将原始载体映射到几何不变空间内;然后计算归一化图像的小波矩,并选取部分稳定的低阶小波矩用于水印嵌入;最后利用奇偶量化方法将水印信息嵌入到所选小波矩的不变量内。仿真实验结果表明,该图像水印方案不仅具有良好的透明性,而且具有较强的抵抗常规信号处理、几何攻击、联合攻击等能力。     

结合汉明码和图像矫正的彩色图像盲水印

目的 随着互联网技术的飞速发展,彩色数字图像带来极大便利的同时,也产生了一些篡改、剽窃等侵权行为;同时,几何处理对含水印载体的破坏使水印盲检测的难度增加,因此,本文提出一种基于汉明码和图像矫正的彩色图像盲水印方法,旨在解决当前图像版权保护的难点问题。方法 嵌入水印时,使用仿射变换加密彩色水印,并将已加密的信息编为汉明码,然后利用特征值分解计算出像素块的全部特征值,并通过对特征值绝对值的和进行量化来完成水印的嵌入;提取水印时,利用图像的几何属性对多种几何攻击后的图像进行判断、矫正,并借助量化技术提取水印。结果 基于彩色图像标准数据库,将本文方法与7种相关方法进行了对比实验：在不可见性方面,与LU分解的水印方法相比,本文算法峰值信噪比（peak signal-to-noise ratio,PSNR）提高了4 dB;在常规攻击鲁棒性方面,与Schur分解的最新方法相比,本文算法平均归一化互相关（normalized cross-correlation,NC）的值稍有提高;在几何攻击鲁棒性方面,本文算法NC值具有一定的优势;同时,本文算法的水印容量达到了0.25 bit/像素,密钥空间达到了2⁴³²,运行时间仅需3 s左右。结论 所提方法不仅具有较好的水印不可见性和较强的鲁棒性,而且具有较大的水印容量、较高的安全性和实时性。     

A robust image watermarking algorithm using SVR detection

Geometric distortion is known as one of the most difficult attacks to resist. Geometric distortion desynchronizes the location of the watermark and hence causes incorrect watermark detection. According to the Support Vector Regression (SVR), a new image watermarking detection algorithm against geometric attacks is proposed in this paper, in which the steady Pseudo-Zernike moments and Krawtchouk moments are utilized. The host image is firstly transformed from rectangular coordinates to polar coordinates, and the Pseudo-Zernike moments of the host image are computed. Then some low-order Pseudo-Zernike moments are selected, and the digital watermark is embedded into the cover image by quantizing the magnitudes of the selected Pseudo-Zernike moments. The main steps of watermark detecting procedure include: (i) some low-order Krawtchouk moments of the image are calculated, which are taken as the eigenvectors; (ii) the geometric transformation parameters are regarded as the training objective, the appropriate kernel function is selected for training, and a SVR training model can be obtained; (iii) the Krawtchouk moments of test image are selected as input vector, the actual output (geometric transformation parameters) is predicted by using the well trained SVR, and the geometric correction is performed on the test image by using the obtained geometric transformation parameters; (iv) the digital watermark is extracted from the corrected test image. Experimental results show that the proposed watermarking detection algorithm is not only robust against common signal processing such as filtering, sharpening, noise adding, and JPEG compression etc., but also robust against the geometric attacks such as rotation, translation, scaling, cropping and combination attacks, etc.     

一种使用机器学习方法的数字水印算法

针对目前数字水印算法存在的不足,本文将离散小波变换和奇异值分解相结合,提出了一种基于机器学习的图像数字水印算法.首先将载体图像进行一级小波变换,提取其低频子带图像对其进行4×4分块处理,然后对每一分块进行奇异值分解后嵌入水印,并提取特征向量用于最小二乘支持向量机的训练,训练好的最小二乘支持向量机用于自适应最大水印嵌入强度的计算以及水印的盲提取.实验选取三张512×512的标准测试图像以及64×64的二值水印图像对算法的透明性与鲁棒性进行测试.实验结果证明,图像具有很好的透明性,PSNR达到了63.71dB,针对旋转、剪切、JPEG压缩、高斯噪声等常规攻击手段时,算法能保持较强的鲁棒性.     

A Video Watermarking Scheme Based on the Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform

A watermarking scheme that discourages theater camcorder piracy through the enforcement of playback control is presented. In this method, the video is watermarked so that its display is not permitted if a compliant video player detects the watermark. A watermark that is robust to geometric distortions (rotation, scaling, cropping) and lossy compression is required in order to block access to media content that has been re-recorded with a camera inside a movie theater. We introduce a new video watermarking algorithm for playback control that takes advantage of the properties of the dual-tree complex wavelet transform. This transform offers the advantages of the regular and the complex wavelets (perfect reconstruction, shift invariance, and good directional selectivity). Our method relies on these characteristics to create a watermark that is robust to geometric distortions and lossy compression. The proposed scheme is simple to implement and outperforms comparable methods when tested against geometric distortions.      

基于SIFT的NSCT-SVD域水印算法

提出一种利用尺度不变特征变换（SIFT）关键点对图像几何校正的非抽样Contourlet变换-奇异值分解域（NSCT-SVD）彩色图像水印算法。该算法利用蓝色与绿色分量的NSCT域低频子块的最大奇异值的关系,在蓝色分量上嵌入经过混沌加密的水印信息。水印检测时,先利用红色分量NSCT域低频系数上匹配的SIFT关键点信息对被检测图像进行几何攻击校正,恢复了水印的同步信息后再提取水印。实验结果表明,该算法对于噪声、滤波、压缩以及各类几何攻击具有较好的鲁棒性。