Enhanced image watermarking using adaptive pixel prediction

  • Authors:
  • Prat Nudklin;Thumrongrat Amornraksa

  • Affiliations:
  • Multimedia Communication Laboratory, Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thungkru, Bangkok, Thailand;Multimedia Communication Laboratory, Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thungkru, Bangkok, Thailand

  • Venue:
  • ISCIT'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Communications and information technologies
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, an adaptive original pixel prediction is proposed to enhance the watermark retrieval performance of the image watermarking method proposed in [8]. Accordingly, our proposed method adaptively removes one or more surrounding pixel(s) around the predicted pixel, depending on a given threshold, to improve the accuracy in the original pixel prediction process. The experimental results show the improved performance in term of the accuracy of the retrieved watermark, compared to the previous retrieval method proposed in [8]. We also evaluate the robustness of our watermarking approach against various attacks i.e. Gaussian noise, JPEG compression, image cropping and contrast enhancement.