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- Title
Digital image ownership authentication via camouflaged unseen-visible watermarking.
- Authors
Juarez-Sandoval, Oswaldo Ulises; Cedillo-Hernandez, Manuel; Nakano-Miyatake, Mariko; Cedillo-Hernandez, Antonio; Perez-Meana, Hector
- Abstract
In recent years, end users can easily capture digital images using several devices, such as smartphones, mobile devices and digital imaging cameras, allowing such images to be easily copied, manipulated, transmitted or format converted without any restrictions. This fact suggests the necessity to develop digital tools, such as digital watermarking, to solve the issues associated with copyright protection and ownership authentication of digital images. To claim the ownership of a digital image, we propose a camouflaged, unseen-visible watermarking technique based on luminance and texture properties in conjunction with an image enhancement criterion. The proposed method has some advantages over invisible and visible watermarking methodologies in terms of readability and imperceptibility of the watermark, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme is effective and applicable for digital images on a variety of topics, including natural scenes and man-made objects, both indoors and outdoors. A comparison with previously reported methods based on unseen-visible watermarking techniques is also provided.
- Subjects
DIGITAL watermarking; DIGITAL images; LUMINANCE (Photometry); TEXTURE analysis (Image processing); LEGIBILITY (Printing)
- Publication
Multimedia Tools & Applications, 2018, Vol 77, Issue 20, p26601
- ISSN
1380-7501
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11042-018-5881-0