TY - JOUR
T1 - Digital image ownership authentication via camouflaged unseen-visible watermarking
AU - Juarez-Sandoval, Oswaldo Ulises
AU - Cedillo-Hernandez, Manuel
AU - Nakano-Miyatake, Mariko
AU - Cedillo-Hernandez, Antonio
AU - Perez-Meana, Hector
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - In recent years, end users can easily capture digital images using several devices, such as smartphones, mobile devices and digital imaging cameras, allowing such images to be easily copied, manipulated, transmitted or format converted without any restrictions. This fact suggests the necessity to develop digital tools, such as digital watermarking, to solve the issues associated with copyright protection and ownership authentication of digital images. To claim the ownership of a digital image, we propose a camouflaged, unseen-visible watermarking technique based on luminance and texture properties in conjunction with an image enhancement criterion. The proposed method has some advantages over invisible and visible watermarking methodologies in terms of readability and imperceptibility of the watermark, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme is effective and applicable for digital images on a variety of topics, including natural scenes and man-made objects, both indoors and outdoors. A comparison with previously reported methods based on unseen-visible watermarking techniques is also provided.
AB - In recent years, end users can easily capture digital images using several devices, such as smartphones, mobile devices and digital imaging cameras, allowing such images to be easily copied, manipulated, transmitted or format converted without any restrictions. This fact suggests the necessity to develop digital tools, such as digital watermarking, to solve the issues associated with copyright protection and ownership authentication of digital images. To claim the ownership of a digital image, we propose a camouflaged, unseen-visible watermarking technique based on luminance and texture properties in conjunction with an image enhancement criterion. The proposed method has some advantages over invisible and visible watermarking methodologies in terms of readability and imperceptibility of the watermark, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme is effective and applicable for digital images on a variety of topics, including natural scenes and man-made objects, both indoors and outdoors. A comparison with previously reported methods based on unseen-visible watermarking techniques is also provided.
KW - Image-processing
KW - Information security
KW - Ownership authentication
KW - Unseen-visible watermarking
KW - Watermarking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045136050&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11042-018-5881-0
DO - 10.1007/s11042-018-5881-0
M3 - Artículo
SN - 1380-7501
VL - 77
SP - 26601
EP - 26634
JO - Multimedia Tools and Applications
JF - Multimedia Tools and Applications
IS - 20
ER -