scholarly journals Novel Iris Biometric Watermarking Based on Singular Value Decomposition and Discrete Cosine Transform

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinyu Lu ◽  
Tao Qu ◽  
Hamid Reza Karimi
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Cosine Transform ◽  
Error Control ◽  
Iris Recognition ◽  
Singular Values ◽  
Digital Products ◽  
Error Control Coding ◽  
Cosine Transform ◽  
Biometric Template ◽  
Value Decomposition ◽  
Watermarking Scheme

A novel iris biometric watermarking scheme is proposed focusing on iris recognition instead of the traditional watermark for increasing the security of the digital products. The preprocess of iris image is to be done firstly, which generates the iris biometric template from person's eye images. And then the templates are to be on discrete cosine transform; the value of the discrete cosine is encoded to BCH error control coding. The host image is divided into four areas equally correspondingly. The BCH codes are embedded in the singular values of each host image's coefficients which are obtained through discrete cosine transform (DCT). Numerical results reveal that proposed method can extract the watermark effectively and illustrate its security and robustness.

LWT-DCT based Image Watermarking Scheme using Normalized SVD

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahul Dixit ◽  
Amita Nandal ◽  
Arvind Dhaka ◽  
Vardan Agarwal ◽  
Yohan Varghese
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Singular Value Decomposition ◽  
Discrete Cosine Transform ◽  
Image Watermarking ◽  
Singular Value ◽  
Cover Image ◽  
Lifting Wavelet Transform ◽  
Cosine Transform ◽  
Lifting Wavelet ◽  
Value Decomposition

Background: Nowadays information security is one of the biggest issues of social networks. The multimedia data can be tampered with, and the attackers can then claim its ownership. Image watermarking is a technique that is used for copyright protection and authentication of multimedia. Objective: We aim to create a new and more robust image watermarking technique to prevent illegal copying, editing and distribution of media. Method : The watermarking technique proposed in this paper is non-blind and employs Lifting Wavelet Transform on the cover image to decompose the image into four coefficient matrices. Then Discrete Cosine Transform is applied which separates a selected coefficient matrix into different frequencies and later Singular Value Decomposition is applied. Singular Value Decomposition is also applied to the watermarking image and it is added to the singular matrix of the cover image which is then normalized followed by the inverse Singular Value Decomposition, inverse Discrete Cosine Transform and inverse Lifting Wavelet Transform respectively to obtain an embedded image. Normalization is proposed as an alternative to the traditional scaling factor. Results: Our technique is tested against attacks like rotation, resizing, cropping, noise addition and filtering. The performance comparison is evaluated based on Peak Signal to Noise Ratio, Structural Similarity Index Measure, and Normalized Cross-Correlation. Conclusion: The experimental results prove that the proposed method performs better than other state-of-the-art techniques and can be used to protect multimedia ownership.

ROBUST REFERENCE-WATERMARKING SCHEME USING WAVELET PACKET TRANSFORM AND BIDIAGONAL-SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION

2009 ◽  
Vol 09 (03) ◽  
pp. 449-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
GAURAV BHATNAGAR ◽  
BALASUBRAMANIAN RAMAN
Keyword(s):  
Singular Value Decomposition ◽  
Gaussian Noise ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Wavelet Packet ◽  
Singular Values ◽  
Wavelet Packet Transform ◽  
Singular Value ◽  
Noise Type ◽  
Value Decomposition ◽  
Watermarking Scheme

This paper presents a new robust reference watermarking scheme based on wavelet packet transform (WPT) and bidiagonal singular value decomposition (bSVD) for copyright protection and authenticity. A small gray scale logo is used as watermark instead of randomly generated Gaussian noise type watermark. A reference watermark is generated by original watermark and the process of embedding is done in wavelet packet domain by modifying the bidiagonal singular values. For the robustness and imperceptibly, watermark is embedded in the selected sub-bands, which are selected by taking into account the variance of the sub-bands, which serves as a measure of the watermark magnitude that could be imperceptibly embedded in each block. For this purpose, the variance is calculated in a small moving square window of size Sp× Sp(typically 3 × 3 or 5 × 5 window) centered at the pixel. A reliable watermark extraction is developed, in which the watermark bidiagonal singular values are extracted by considering the distortion caused by the attacks in neighboring bidiagonal singular values. Experimental evaluation demonstrates that the proposed scheme is able to withstand a variety of attacks and the superiority of the proposed method is carried out by the comparison which is made by us with the existing methods.

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