TY - JOUR
AU - Jing, Cui-ning
AB - Robust zero-watermarking is an effective and distortion-free technique for copyright protection and has become a research hotspot in the field of digital watermarking. In the face of weak robustness and security of existing schemes, this paper presents a novel robust and secure color image zero-watermarking algorithm based on majority voting pattern and hyper-chaotic encryption. In the proposed algorithm, firstly an original color image is decomposed by one-level discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and the corresponding low-frequency components of three channels are partitioned into blocks. Then, to resist strong attacks, we construct a distinguishable robust binary feature matrix extracted from all blocks and color components by using a combination of Frobenius norm in the singular value decomposition (SVD) domain and majority voting pattern. To promote security, a binary copyright logo is confused and diffused by hyper-chaotic Lorenz system. Finally, it performs a bitwise exclusive-or operation on the binary feature matrix and the encrypted copyrighted logo to obtain a zero-watermark signal. Experimental results indicate that in addition to the high-level security, the proposed zero-watermarking algorithm also has a stronger robustness against common geometric and non-geometric attacks, including rotation, scaling, filtering, JPEG compression and noise addition, compared with some existing typical zero-watermarking and traditional watermarking methods.
TI - Robust and secure zero-watermarking algorithm for color images based on majority voting pattern and hyper-chaotic encryption
JO - Multimedia Tools and Applications
DO - 10.1007/s11042-019-08191-y
DA - 2020-01-24
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/robust-and-secure-zero-watermarking-algorithm-for-color-images-based-QBcypyKSff
SP - 1169
EP - 1202
VL - 79
IS - 1-2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -