# A quantum watermarking scheme using simple and small-scale quantum circuits

A quantum watermarking scheme using simple and small-scale quantum circuits A new quantum gray-scale image watermarking scheme by using simple and small-scale quantum circuits is proposed. The NEQR representation for quantum images is used. The image sizes for carrier and watermark are assumed to be $$2n \times 2n$$ 2 n × 2 n and $$n \times n$$ n × n , respectively. At first, a classical watermark with $$n \times n$$ n × n image size and 8 bits gray scale is expanded to an image with $$2n \times 2n$$ 2 n × 2 n image size and 2 bits gray scale. Then the expanded image is scrambled to be a meaningless image by the SWAP gates that controlled by the keys only known to the operator. The scrambled image is embedded into the carrier image by the CNOT gates (XOR operation). The watermark is extracted from the watermarked image by applying operations in the reverse order. Simulation-based experimental results show that our proposed scheme is excellent in terms of three items, visual quality, robustness performance under noises, and computational complexity. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quantum Information Processing Springer Journals

# A quantum watermarking scheme using simple and small-scale quantum circuits

, Volume 15 (5) – Feb 20, 2016
16 pages

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Publisher
Springer US
Subject
Physics; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics; Quantum Computing; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Quantum Physics; Mathematical Physics
ISSN
1570-0755
eISSN
1573-1332
D.O.I.
10.1007/s11128-016-1260-9
Publisher site
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### References

• Hiding messages in quantum data
Gea-Banacloche, J
• Secure communication without encryption?
Martin, K

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