Attack on a semi-blind watermarking scheme based on singular value decomposition

  • Authors:
  • Grace C. -W. Ting;Bok-Min Goi;Swee-Huay Heng

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Cryptography and Information Security (CCIS), Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, 63100 Cyberjaya, Malaysia;Centre for Cryptography and Information Security (CCIS), Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, 63100 Cyberjaya, Malaysia;Centre for Cryptography and Information Security (CCIS), Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, 63100 Cyberjaya, Malaysia

  • Venue:
  • Computer Standards & Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we show that a recently proposed robust watermarking scheme by Shieh et al. does not bind a cover image to a watermark, therefore cannot be used for proof of ownership applications. The problem lies in the use of singular value decomposition (SVD) for this binding.