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A Robust and Computationally Efficient Digital Watermarking Technique Using Inter Block Pixel Differencing

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Multimedia Forensics and Security

Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library ((ISRL,volume 115))

Abstract

The growth of internet coupled with the rise in networked infrastructure has resulted in exponential increase in the multimedia content being shared over the communication networks. The advancement in technology has resulted in increase in multimedia piracy. This is due to the fact that it is very easy to copy, duplicate and distributes multimedia content using current day technology. In such a scenario Digital Rights Management is one of the prominent issues to be dealt with and tremendous work is going on in this direction round the globe. Digital watermarking and fingerprinting have emerged as fundamental technologies to cater to DRM issues. These technologies have been found to be of prominent use in content authentication, copy protection, copyright control, broadcast monitoring and forensic applications. Various requirements of a digital watermarking system include Imperceptibility, Robustness, Security, Payload and Computational complexity. The main requirement of real time DRM systems is lesser computational complexity and high robustness. This chapter proposes and analyses a robust and computational efficient Image watermarking technique in spatial domain based on Inter Block Pixel Difference (IBPD). The cover image is divided into 8 × 8 non overlapping blocks and difference between intensities of two pixels of adjacent blocks at predefined positions is calculated. Depending upon the watermark bit to be embedded; both the pixels are modified to bring the difference in a predefined zone. The experimental results reveal that the proposed scheme is capable of providing high quality watermarked images in addition to being robust to various singular and hybrid image processing and geometrical attacks like Salt and Pepper noise, Gaussian noise, Sharpening, Compression, Rotation and Cropping etc. Further the implementation of the scheme in pixel domain reduces the computational complexity drastically and makes the proposed scheme an ideal candidate for real time applications.

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The authors would like to thank the Department of Science and Technology (DST) New Delhi for providing financial support under DST inspire fellowship scheme.

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    Shabir A. Parah, Javaid A. Sheikh, Nazir A. Loan & G. M. Bhat

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  1. Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE), Faculty of Computers and Information, Department of Information Technology, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

    Aboul Ella Hassanien

  2. Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE), Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, Giza, Egypt

    Mohamed Mostafa Fouad

  3. Advanced Informatics School, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Azizah Abdul Manaf

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    Rabiah Ahmad

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    Janusz Kacprzyk

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Parah, S.A., Sheikh, J.A., Loan, N.A., Bhat, G.M. (2017). A Robust and Computationally Efficient Digital Watermarking Technique Using Inter Block Pixel Differencing. In: Hassanien, A., Mostafa Fouad, M., Manaf, A., Zamani, M., Ahmad, R., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Multimedia Forensics and Security. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 115. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44270-9_10

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