TY - JOUR
T1 - Adaptive removable visible watermarking technique using dual watermarking for digital color images
AU - Rangel-Espinoza, Kevin
AU - Fragoso-Navarro, Eduardo
AU - Cruz-Ramos, Clara
AU - Reyes-Reyes, Rogelio
AU - Nakano-Miyatake, Mariko
AU - Pérez-Meana, Héctor M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
PY - 2018/6/1
Y1 - 2018/6/1
N2 - This paper proposes a removable visible watermarking system based on a dual watermark technique and blind removal. A visible watermark pattern is embedded in the cosine discrete transform (DCT) domain, taking into consideration the texture and luminance features of the watermark and host images to create a visible watermarked image. To prevent illegal visible watermark removal, the original watermark is embedded in an invisible manner in the visible watermarked image by employing the Quantization Index Modulation-Dither Modulation (QIM-DM) technique, thus ensuring that the original watermark cannot be obtained by malicious attacks. The visible watermark removal process is carried out using only the correct user’s keys, without the need for additional information, such as the original watermark or the original host image, which allows a high-quality image to be obtained; however, if the user’s keys used in the removal process are wrong, the visible watermarked image suffers higher distortion in its content, even in non-visible watermarked regions. The experimental results show that the proposed system outperforms previous related works in terms of blind removal, preservation of the quality of the unmarked recovered image, and higher visual degradation of the content in the recovered image if an illegal removal attempt is performed.
AB - This paper proposes a removable visible watermarking system based on a dual watermark technique and blind removal. A visible watermark pattern is embedded in the cosine discrete transform (DCT) domain, taking into consideration the texture and luminance features of the watermark and host images to create a visible watermarked image. To prevent illegal visible watermark removal, the original watermark is embedded in an invisible manner in the visible watermarked image by employing the Quantization Index Modulation-Dither Modulation (QIM-DM) technique, thus ensuring that the original watermark cannot be obtained by malicious attacks. The visible watermark removal process is carried out using only the correct user’s keys, without the need for additional information, such as the original watermark or the original host image, which allows a high-quality image to be obtained; however, if the user’s keys used in the removal process are wrong, the visible watermarked image suffers higher distortion in its content, even in non-visible watermarked regions. The experimental results show that the proposed system outperforms previous related works in terms of blind removal, preservation of the quality of the unmarked recovered image, and higher visual degradation of the content in the recovered image if an illegal removal attempt is performed.
KW - Adaptive visible watermarking
KW - Blind extraction
KW - Copyright protection
KW - Dual watermarking
KW - Image restoration
KW - Removable visible watermarking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021135781&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11042-017-4931-3
DO - 10.1007/s11042-017-4931-3
M3 - Artículo
SN - 1380-7501
VL - 77
SP - 13047
EP - 13074
JO - Multimedia Tools and Applications
JF - Multimedia Tools and Applications
IS - 11
ER -