A Robust Image Watermarking Scheme using Singular Value Decomposition

This paper presents a robust image watermarking scheme for multimedia copyright protection. In this work, host image is partitioned into four sub images. Watermark image such as `logo' is embedded in the two of these sub images, in both D (singular and diagonal matrix) and U (left singular and orthogonal matrix) components of Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of two sub images. Watermark image is embedded in the D component using Dither quantization. A copy of the watermark is embedded in the columns of U matrix using comparison of the coefficients of U matrix with respect to the watermark image. If extraction of watermark from D matrix is not complete, there is a fair amount of probability that it can be extracted from U matrix. The proposed algorithm is more secure and robust to various attacks, viz., JPEG2000 compression, JPEG compression, rotation, scaling, cropping, row-column blanking, row-column copying, salt and pepper noise, filtering and gamma correction. Superior exper...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: JMM2
• Authors: B. Chandra Mohan, S. Srinivas Kumar
• Keywords: Image, JMM2 2008, Sub Images, Watermark Image