A highly robust two-stage Contourlet-based digital image watermarking method

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Highlights:

• The first truly blind two stage watermarking method.

• We embedded signature in high and low frequency CT coefficients to increase the range of robustness.

• We embedded signature in local and global CT coefficients to increase the range of robustness.

• We efficiently embedded the signature to achieve low PSNR degradation of watermarked image.

• The proposed blind watermarking method achieves high robustness against wide range of attacks.

摘要

•The first truly blind two stage watermarking method.•We embedded signature in high and low frequency CT coefficients to increase the range of robustness.•We embedded signature in local and global CT coefficients to increase the range of robustness.•We efficiently embedded the signature to achieve low PSNR degradation of watermarked image.•The proposed blind watermarking method achieves high robustness against wide range of attacks.

论文关键词:Contourlet transform (CT),Multiple description coding (MDC),Robust watermarking,Two-stage watermarking

论文评审过程:Received 21 February 2013, Revised 19 June 2013, Accepted 5 July 2013, Available online 16 July 2013.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2013.07.002