An evolutionary programming approach for securing medical images using watermarking scheme in invariant discrete wavelet transformation

In a buyer–seller watermarking protocol, a seller should embed a buyer's fingerprinting and seller's watermark into the work before the sale of a work to a buyer. If the work is violated, the fingerprinting and watermark can be extracted to correctly identify who holds the legal copyright of the work and trace the illegal reseller. In this paper, we propose a robust buyer–seller watermarking scheme based on discrete wavelet transformation (DWT) which embeds the buyer's fingerprinting and seller's watermark into an image. Besides, during the extraction phase, the extraction of the fingerprinting and watermark does not require the original image for more feasibility in real application. The proposed scheme has the following advantages. Firstly, the extraction of the fingerprinting and watermark does not require the original image. Secondly, the watermarked image maintains a good visual quality after the fingerprinting and watermark embedding. Thirdly, the proposed scheme is robust against several image processing attacks.

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Evaluvation of Multiresolution Watermarking Algorithm

International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering ◽

10.23956/ijarcsse.v7i8.29 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (8) ◽

pp. 85

Author(s):

S. Thabasu Kannan ◽

S. Azhagu Senthil

Keyword(s):

Digital Watermarking ◽

Wavelet Transformation ◽

Signal To Noise Ratio ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Threshold Value ◽

Discrete Wavelet ◽

Digital Production ◽

Common Framework ◽

Sampling Operation ◽

Watermarking Scheme

Now-a-days watermarking plays a pivotal role in most of the industries for providing security to their own as well as hired or leased data. This paper its main aim is to study the multiresolution watermarking algorithms and also choosing the effective and efficient one for improving the resistance in data compression. Computational savings from such a multiresolution watermarking framework is obvious. The multiresolutional property makes our watermarking scheme robust to image/video down sampling operation by a power of two in either space or time. There is no common framework for multiresolutional digital watermarking of both images and video. A multiresolution watermarking based on the wavelet transformation is selected in each frequency band of the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) domain and therefore it can resist the destruction of image processing. The rapid development of Internet introduces a new set of challenging problems regarding security. One of the most significant problems is to prevent unauthorized copying of digital production from distribution. Digital watermarking has provided a powerful way to claim intellectual protection. We proposed an idea for enhancing the robustness of extracted watermarks. Watermark can be treated as a transmitted signal, while the destruction from attackers is regarded as a noisy distortion in channel. For the implementation, we have used minimum nine coordinate positions. The watermarking algorithms to be taken for this study are Corvi algorithm and Wang algorithm. In all graph, we have plotted X axis as peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and y axis as Correlation with original watermark. The threshold value ά is set to 5. The result is smaller than the threshold value then it is feasible, otherwise it is not.

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