Watermarking of 3D Irregular Meshes Based on Wavelet Multiresolution Analysis

In this paper, we propose a robust watermarking method for 3-D triangle surface meshes. Most previous methods based on the wavelet analysis can process only semi-regular meshes. Our proposal can be applied to irregular as well as regular meshes by using recently introduced irregular wavelet analysis scheme. L2-Norm of the wavelet coefficients is modified in various multi-resolution levels to embed the watermark. We also introduced a vertex and face re-ordering process as pre-processing in both watermark embedding and extraction for the robustness against connectivity reordering attacks. In addition, our proposal employs blind watermark detection scheme, which can extract the watermark without reference of cover mesh model. Through the simulations, we prove that our approach is robust against connectivity reordering as well as various kinds of geometrical attacks such as lossy compression and affine transform.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: IWDW
• Authors: Min-Su Kim, Sébastien Valette, Ho-Youl Jung, Rémy Prost
• Keywords: Irregular Wavelet Analysis, IWDW 2005, Triangle Surface Meshes, Wavelet Analysis