Towards robust and secure watermarking

  • Authors:
  • Fuchun Xie;Teddy Furon;Caroline Fontaine

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA-Rennes Bretagne Atlantique Research Center, Rennes, France;INRIA-Rennes Bretagne Atlantique Research Center, Rennes, France;CNRS/Lab-STICC/CID, and Télécom Bretagne/ITI, Brest, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th ACM workshop on Multimedia and security
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper presents yet another attempt towards robust and secure watermarking. Some recent works have looked at this issue first designing new watermarking schemes with a security oriented point of view, and then evaluating their robustness compared to state-of-the-art but unsecure techniques. Our approach is, on contrary, to start from a very robust watermarking technique and to propose changes in order to strengthen its security levels. These changes include the introduction of a security criterion, an embedding process implemented as a maximization of a robustness metric under the perceptual and the security constraints, and a watermarking detection seen as a contrario decision test. Our experimentations lead to, once again, a trade-off between security and robustness. The technique is now perfectly secure against attacks mounted during the second edition of the BOWS challenge, but the price to pay is either a lower robustness against common image processing, either a bigger probability of false alarm.