Design and Implement of a robust digital watermarking system
Abstract
The revolution in digital technology has increased the case of manipulation, reproduction, retransmission, and distribution of digital images. However, it also offers the potential for illegal use, known as a piracy of digital images. Consequently, the need to manage and protect these digital properties has become crucial. Watermarking technology is considered as an alternative tool for protecting these intellectual properties. It attempts to identify the true owner by hiding perceptually invisible information (watermark) inside the digital data. In this thesis, for the purpose of protecting the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of digital images, a Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) based digital watermark algorithm is described. The proposal is designed for images.
The key points of research addressed in this proposal include: (1) The structures of watermark being embedded that enhance the perceptual invisibility and watermark detection efficiency. (2) Watermark embedding strategy. For instance, watermark embedding function and watermark embedding parameters (weighting function-embedding energy, embedding level and spatial location), which maximize the robustness and invisibility of the watermark. (3) The possibility of using Human Visual System (HVS) in the Watermark Embedding Process (WEP). (4) The Watermark Detection Process (WDP), especially, the reliability of the proposed watermarking algorithm after distortion by several kinds of watermark attacks. (5) The robust watermarking protocol for proving ownership.
Key word: Digital Watermarking, Discrete Wavelet Transform, Human Visual System
