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This paper proposes a robust watermarking technique using wavelet transform generated from well-known orthogonal transform Walsh. Watermark embedding is done in middle frequency band of column wavelet transformed host image. Performance of proposed technique is evaluated against image processing attacks like compression, cropping, addition of run length noise with binary and Gaussian distribution and image resizing. Comparison of performance of these transforms is done on the basis of robustness to attacks using Mean Absolute Error (MAE) as a metric of robustness. Column wavelet is found preferable over full wavelet. Also column Walsh wavelet is preferable over column DCT wavelet for robustness.
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Kekre, H.B., Natu, S., Sarode, T. (2017). Performance Evaluation of Digital Color Image Watermarking Using Column Walsh Wavelet Transform. In: Lobiyal, D., Mohapatra, D., Nagar, A., Sahoo, M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal, Networks, Computing, and Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 395. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3592-7_15
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