Design of robust and fragile image watermarking system for copyright protection and authentication using lifting wavelet transform and bivariate empirical mode decomposition techniques
In this thesis, a dual purpose watermarking system is designed that satisfy both robustness and fragility, and thus combining copyright protection and tamper proofing simultaneously without significantly degrading each other. The proposed copyright scheme is new and effective. Two transforms whic...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/71170/1/FK%202017%2047%20-%20IR.pdf |
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| Summary: | In this thesis, a dual purpose watermarking system is designed that satisfy both
robustness and fragility, and thus combining copyright protection and tamper proofing
simultaneously without significantly degrading each other. The proposed copyright
scheme is new and effective. Two transforms which are; lifting wavelet transform
(LWT) and bivariate empirical mode decomposition (BEMD), are used to decompose
the original image to provide flexibility in choosing the robust frequency subband of
the original image. LWT, is chosen as it is fast and keeps the integrity of the retrieved
watermark. While BEMD could sift the image from the most robust to the least
sensitive (fragile) frequency bands. This property is exploited in this thesis to embed
the watermark in the robust part of BEMD which is the residue (r).
To ensure the integrity and authenticity of digital images, a wide variety of
authentication schemes have been proposed in the literature to detect image tampering.
However, most of the existing schemes either fail to address this issue or use
inaccurate method to evaluate the system performance. For this reason, a procedure to
generate a new type of fragile watermark that can detect any tampering is developed
in this thesis. The most sensitive subbands of the BEMD which are Intrinsic Mode
Function (IMFs) are used to derive and embed the watermark bits in the frequency
domain and further processed to increase the security and the ability to detect any
alteration. Another watermark is generated and embedded in the spatial domain using
block wise method and the Least Significant Bits (LSBs) insertion. The dual-purpose scheme is obtained by combining both the copyright protection and
image authentication schemes and has been subjected to robust and fragile attacks.
The results demonstrated that the performance of the scheme remains at par or only
degrade at an acceptable level after inserting the dual watermarks. The obtained visual
quality, Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), is greater than 48dB and the Normalised
Cross Correlation (NCC) is greater than 0.97 while the tampering detection rate (AV)
is greater than 94%. |
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