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Watermarking techniques have been proposed to solve the problem of copyright protection and authentication. Using the idea from [1] in this paper [LVW-PBB], the best block for embedding the watermark is identified, that is based on similarity between DCT coefficients of original image and the watermark image. The embedding method is based on [2] which use the deterministic one-to-one compound mappings of image pixel values. The compound mappings are proved to be reversible, which allows for lossless recovery of original images from watermarked images. Different types of visible watermarks, including opaque monochrome and translucent color ones, are embedded by using the proposed approach. For Security protection, parameter and mapping randomizations have also been proposed. In case of various attacks such as JPEG compression, filtering, cropping, and additive Noise, the quality of cover image is acceptable even after the watermark extraction. Thus the proposed method is robust.
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Sinduja, R., Rachel Rupala, I., Sathiya, R.D. (2012). A Novice Approach for Lossless Visible Watermarking Approach by Pioneering the Best Block (LVW-PBB). In: Krishna, P.V., Babu, M.R., Ariwa, E. (eds) Global Trends in Information Systems and Software Applications. ObCom 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 270. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29216-3_10
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