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A robust color image watermarking using local invariant significant bitplane histogram

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Desynchronization attacks that cause displacement between embedding and detection are usually difficult for watermark to survive. It is a challenging work to design a robust image watermarking scheme against desynchronization attacks, especially for color images. In this paper, we propose a robust color image watermarking approach based on local invariant significant bitplane histogram. The novelty of the proposed approach includes: 1) A fast and effective color image feature points detector is constructed, in which probability density and color invariance model are used; 2) The fully affine invariant local feature regions are built based on probability density Hessian matrix; and 3) The invariant significant bitplane histograms are introduced to embed digital watermark. The extensive experimental works are carried out on a color image set collected from Internet, and the preliminary results show that the proposed watermarking approach can survive numerous kinds of distortions, including common image processing operations and desynchronization attacks.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61272416, & 61472171, the Foundation of Science and Technology Plan for Higher Education of Liaoning Province of China under Grant No. L2015289, and Youth Foundation of Liaoning Normal University of China under Grant No. LS2014L016.

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    Niu Pan-Pan, Wang Xiang-Yang, Liu Yu-Nan & Yang Hong-Ying

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Pan-Pan, N., Xiang-Yang, W., Yu-Nan, L. et al. A robust color image watermarking using local invariant significant bitplane histogram. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 3403–3433 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3935-8

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