Robust and high capacity image watermarking based on jointly coding and embedding optimization

  • Authors:

  • Chuntao Wang;Jiangqun Ni;Jiwu Huang;Rongyue Zhang;Meiying Huang

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P. R. China;Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P. R. China and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Information Security Technology, Guangzhou, P.R. China;Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P. R. China and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Information Security Technology, Guangzhou, P.R. China;Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P. R. China;Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P. R. China

  • Venue:
  • IH'07 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Information hiding
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A new informed image watermarking algorithm is presented in this paper, which can achieve the information rate of 1/64 bits/pixel with high robustness. Firstly, the LOT (Locally Optimum Test) detector based on HMM in wavelet domain is developed to tackle the issue that the exact strength for informed embedding is unknown to the receiver. Then based on the LOT detector, the dirty-paper code for informed coding is constructed and the metric for the robustness is defined accordingly. Unlike the previous approaches of informed watermarking which take the informed coding and embedding process separately, the proposed algorithm implements a jointly coding and embedding optimization for high capacity and robust watermarking. The Genetic Algorithm (GA) is employed to optimize the robustness and distortion constraints simultaneously. Extensive simulations are carried out which demonstrates that the proposed algorithm achieves significant improvements in performance against JPEG, gain attack, low-pass filtering and so on.