VQ-Based gray watermark hiding scheme and genetic index assignment

  • Authors:
  • Feng-Hsing Wang;Jeng-Shyang Pan;Lakhmi Jain;Hsiang-Cheh Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electrical and Information Eng., University of South Australia, Australia;Dept. of Electronic Eng., National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R. O. C.;School of Electrical and Information Eng., University of South Australia, Australia;Dept. of Electronic Eng., National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R. O. C.

  • Venue:
  • PCM'04 Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim Conference on Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A vector quantisation (VQ) based watermarking scheme for hiding the gray watermark is presented. It expands the watermark size, and employs VQ index assignment procedure with genetic algorithm, called genetic index assignment (GIA), for watermarking. The gray watermark is coded by VQ, and obtained indices are translated into a binary bitstream with a much smaller size. We partition the codebook into two sub-codebooks, and use either one of them based on the value of the bit for embedding. Next, GIA is employed to find better imperceptibility of watermarked image. Experimental results show that the proposed method possesses advantages over other related methods in literature.