The Open Signal Processing Journal

2013, 5 : 1-6
Published online 2013 December 27. DOI: 10.2174/1876825301305010001
Publisher ID: TOSIGPJ-5-1

Side-Informed Image Watermarking Scheme Based on Dither Modulation in the Frequency Domain

Osama Hosam
City for Scientific Research and Technology Applications, IRI, Alexandria, Egypt.

ABSTRACT

Digital communication and media sharing have extensively increased in the last couple of years. Research is focused on protecting digital media through copyright protection. The digital media is secured by watermarking. We have developed an image watermarking technique in the frequency domain to hide secure information in the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficients of the carrier image. DCT coefficients are modulated by Dither Modulation (DM). We have increased the modulation step to be able to entirely recover the embedded data (watermark) and increase the robustness of our proposed algorithm to affine transforms and geometrical attacks. Our algorithm showed lower complexity and robustness against different attacks.

Keywords:

Watermarking, DCT, side-informed, decoding, encoding, robustness.