A robust high-capacity affine-transformation-invariant scheme for watermarking 3D geometric models

  • Authors:
  • Xifeng Gao;Caiming Zhang;Yan Huang;Zhigang Deng

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Houston, TX;Shandong University, China;Shandong University, China;University of Houston, TX

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP) - Special Issue on Multimedia Security
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this article we propose a novel, robust, and high-capacity watermarking method for 3D meshes with arbitrary connectivities in the spatial domain based on affine invariants. Given a 3D mesh model, a watermark is embedded as affine-invariant length ratios of one diagonal segment to the residing diagonal intersected by the other one in a coplanar convex quadrilateral. In the extraction process, a watermark is recovered by combining all the watermark pieces embedded in length ratios through majority voting. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the robustness, high computational efficiency, high capacity, and affine-transformation-invariant characteristics of the proposed approach.