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Multiple Watermarking Using Multilevel Quantization Index Modulation

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Digital Forensics and Watermarking (IWDW 2016)

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In this paper, a type of multilevel Quantization Index Modulation (QIM) algorithms is proposed by adopting the concept of multilevel nested lattice coding. We first introduce the multilevel scalar-QIM and then extend it to the vector case by using lattice-QIM. The lattice definition and nested lattices construction are specified such that the constructed nested lattices is suitable for multilevel lattice-QIM. The proposed scheme embeds multiple watermark sequences into the same host signal via several embedding rounds. Each round of embedding uses quantizers of different radii, and thus provides different robustness. As a result, the embedded watermark sequences can be used for various purposes. Benefiting from the scalable robustness and adjustable embedding rate, the proposed multilevel QIM presents good performances and supports a wide range of applications.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong (No. 2016A030313350), the Special Funds for Science and Technology Development of Guangdong (No. 2016KZ010103), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 16LGJC83), and the Key Lab of Information Network Security, Ministry of Public Security.

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  1. College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China

    Bingwen Feng & Jian Weng

  2. Guangdong Key Laboratory of Information Security Technology, School of Data and Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China

    Wei Lu

  3. Key Lab of Information Network Security, Ministry of Public Security, Shanghai, 200000, China

    Bei Pei

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  2. Korea University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Hyoung Joong Kim

  3. University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain

    Fernando Perez-Gonzalez

  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Feng Liu

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Feng, B., Weng, J., Lu, W., Pei, B. (2017). Multiple Watermarking Using Multilevel Quantization Index Modulation. In: Shi, Y., Kim, H., Perez-Gonzalez, F., Liu, F. (eds) Digital Forensics and Watermarking. IWDW 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10082. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53465-7_23

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