Contourlet and discrete cosine transform based quality guaranteed robust image watermarking method using artificial bee colony algorithm

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Highlights：

• A quality ensured blind and robust image watermarking method is proposed.

• The embedding strategy is developed to achieve high imperceptibility.

• ABC determines the optimal strength factor and embedding positions.

• ABC is used to obtain high robustness while guaranteeing a pre-defined quality.

摘要

•A quality ensured blind and robust image watermarking method is proposed.•The embedding strategy is developed to achieve high imperceptibility.•ABC determines the optimal strength factor and embedding positions.•ABC is used to obtain high robustness while guaranteeing a pre-defined quality.

论文关键词：Robust watermarking,Contourlet,DCT–SVD,Artificial Bee Colony

论文评审过程：Received 7 March 2022, Revised 16 August 2022, Accepted 28 August 2022, Available online 5 September 2022, Version of Record 15 September 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.118730