A robust against rotation attack watermarking technique based on wavelet transform

Watermark robustness is one of the major characteristics that influence the performance and applications of digital image watermarks. The main issue being focused relates to tradeoff between three major components that covers embedding capacity, imperceptibility and robustness. Discrete Wavelet Tran...

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Main Author:	Aghabababaeyan, Reza
Format:	Thesis
Published:	2015
Subjects:	T Technology (General)
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spelling	my-utm-ep.546642020-11-03T07:42:05Z A robust against rotation attack watermarking technique based on wavelet transform 2015-09 Aghabababaeyan, Reza T Technology (General) Watermark robustness is one of the major characteristics that influence the performance and applications of digital image watermarks. The main issue being focused relates to tradeoff between three major components that covers embedding capacity, imperceptibility and robustness. Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is a technique in frequency domain to transform image into four sub-images. Each sub-image of DWT has its own ability and advantage of good embedding to get better robustness and imperceptibility. Robustness is one of the areas to be improved when an attack is implied to watermarked image. One of the main issues is rotation attack when the watermarked image is rotated with high angle of rotation. The purpose of this research is to improve the robustness of rotation attack and increase the quality of watermarked image. This research proposed a new scheme called RA_SPARSE which determine embedding phase and new model called R_E_Z_A for rotation attacks detection. The effect of embedding on different sizes of standard messages and rotation attack on all angles is identified and analyzed to observe the performance of the developed scheme. One of the findings is the discovery about the nature of the images give the different results for the effectiveness on imperceptibility and robustness of watermarked image. The results of the research for image with much smooth area produced the highest visual quality of PSNR which is 59.37 decibel or equivalent to 8.3 percent improvement at level two of diagonal sub-image (HH) when compared to other available current schemes. Proposed scheme also had the utmost robustness of NCC with 0.9998 or equivalent to 6.8 percent perfection at level three of vertical sub-image (LH) when compared to former existing recent schemes. The research proves that the nature of image with many smooth areas presents more robustness and imperceptibility. 2015-09 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/54664/ http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:96548 phd doctoral Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Advanced Informatics School Advanced Informatics School
institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic	T Technology (General)
spellingShingle	T Technology (General) Aghabababaeyan, Reza A robust against rotation attack watermarking technique based on wavelet transform
description	Watermark robustness is one of the major characteristics that influence the performance and applications of digital image watermarks. The main issue being focused relates to tradeoff between three major components that covers embedding capacity, imperceptibility and robustness. Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is a technique in frequency domain to transform image into four sub-images. Each sub-image of DWT has its own ability and advantage of good embedding to get better robustness and imperceptibility. Robustness is one of the areas to be improved when an attack is implied to watermarked image. One of the main issues is rotation attack when the watermarked image is rotated with high angle of rotation. The purpose of this research is to improve the robustness of rotation attack and increase the quality of watermarked image. This research proposed a new scheme called RA_SPARSE which determine embedding phase and new model called R_E_Z_A for rotation attacks detection. The effect of embedding on different sizes of standard messages and rotation attack on all angles is identified and analyzed to observe the performance of the developed scheme. One of the findings is the discovery about the nature of the images give the different results for the effectiveness on imperceptibility and robustness of watermarked image. The results of the research for image with much smooth area produced the highest visual quality of PSNR which is 59.37 decibel or equivalent to 8.3 percent improvement at level two of diagonal sub-image (HH) when compared to other available current schemes. Proposed scheme also had the utmost robustness of NCC with 0.9998 or equivalent to 6.8 percent perfection at level three of vertical sub-image (LH) when compared to former existing recent schemes. The research proves that the nature of image with many smooth areas presents more robustness and imperceptibility.
format	Thesis
qualification_name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
qualification_level	Doctorate
author	Aghabababaeyan, Reza
author_facet	Aghabababaeyan, Reza
author_sort	Aghabababaeyan, Reza
title	A robust against rotation attack watermarking technique based on wavelet transform
title_short	A robust against rotation attack watermarking technique based on wavelet transform
title_full	A robust against rotation attack watermarking technique based on wavelet transform
title_fullStr	A robust against rotation attack watermarking technique based on wavelet transform
title_full_unstemmed	A robust against rotation attack watermarking technique based on wavelet transform
title_sort	robust against rotation attack watermarking technique based on wavelet transform
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Advanced Informatics School
granting_department	Advanced Informatics School
publishDate	2015
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A robust against rotation attack watermarking technique based on wavelet transform

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