Abstract-A robust digital image watermarking scheme that combines image feature extraction and image normalization is proposed. The goal is to resist both geometric distortion and signal processing attacks. We adopt a feature extraction method called Mexican Hat wavelet scale interaction. The extracted feature points can survive a variety of attacks and be used as reference points for both watermark embedding and detection. The normalized image of an image (object) is nearly invariant with respect to rotations. As a result, the watermark detection task can be much simplified when it is applied to the normalized image. However, because image normalization is sensitive to image local variation, we apply image normalization to nonoverlapped image disks separately. The disks are centered at the extracted feature points. Several copies of a 16-bit watermark sequence are embedded in the original image to improve the robustness of watermarks. Simulation results show that our scheme can survive low-quality JPEG compression, color reduction, sharpening, Gaussian filtering, median filtering, row or column removal, shearing, rotation, local warping, cropping, and linear geometric transformations.
A feature-based watermarking scheme was first proposed in REF where the authors use the Mexican Hat wavelet scale interaction to extract features in the image that can resist a series of attacks which makes them suitable to be used as emplacement to insert and to extract the mark.
A feature-based robust digital image watermarking scheme
IEEE Trans. Signal Process.
IEEE Trans. Signal Process.
Mathematics Computer Science