A semi-fragile watermarking algorithm for authenticating 2D CAD engineering graphics based on log-polar transformation

  • Authors:
  • Fei Peng;Re-Si Guo;Chang-Tsun Li;Min Long

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Computer and Communication, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China;College of Computer and Communication, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China;Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry CV47 AL, UK;College of Computer and Communication Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410076, PR China

  • Venue:
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Copyright violation and illegal manipulation of digital data have been acute challenges for many sectors since the very same set of enabling techniques for generating and processing digital data started to emerge. Although traditional protective methods, such as encryption and digital signatures, have been in use for decades, their inability to provide protection after decryption and locating tampering has prompted the development of digital watermarking. In this paper, a semi-fragile watermarking algorithm for authenticating 2D CAD engineering graphics based on log-polar coordinate mapping is proposed. Firstly, the vertices are divided into groups, and for each group, the vertices for carrying a watermark are mapped to the log-polar coordinate system. Then the watermark is embedded in the mantissa of the real-valued log-polar coordinates via bit substitution. Theoretical analysis and experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is not only robust against incidental global operations such as rotation, translation and scaling, but can also detect and locate malicious attacks such as entity modification and entity addition/deletion.