Title: A novel multi-purpose watermarking scheme using multiple watermarks

Authors: Ayesha Shaik; V. Masilamani

Addresses: Department of Computer Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, Chennai-600127, India ' Department of Computer Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, Chennai-600127, India

Abstract: Most of the existing digital watermarking schemes mainly target a single or a few required objectives. The novelty of the proposed technique is to meet the four main objectives of the digital watermarking namely copyright protection, data authentication, usage monitoring, and user authentication. This scheme uses multiple watermarks for meeting these goals using discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and singular value decomposition (SVD) transforms. This technique achieves high peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and high robustness against average filtering, median filtering, salt and pepper noise, gamma correction, and contrast enhancement attacks. The experimental results show that the proposed method is effective in achieving four primary goals of watermarking. The validation of the proposed technique is tested using the images from BOWS and SIPI datasets.

Keywords: copyright protection; data authentication; user authentication; usage monitoring; discrete wavelet transform; DWT; singular value decomposition; SVD; watermarking.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAET.2021.115949

International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, 2021 Vol.15 No.1, pp.88 - 103

Received: 20 Dec 2017
Accepted: 26 Nov 2018
Published online: 06 Jul 2021 *

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