A Robustness Watermarking Algorithm for Digital Color Image Print-Scan Process

Abstract:

Most of watermarking algorithms are for digital grey image, which are not robust against the attacks of print-scan process, and the embedded information capacity is small. To solve these problem, a new method based on DWT transform and Walsh orthogonal transform for the print-scan process of digital color image was proposed. The method chosed the color spaces conversion from RGB to CIEL^*a^*b^* for digital color image. The low frequency components of the DWT transform image was embed the watermark. The results show that the correlation of watermark is improved using Walsh orthogonal transform, the watermark extraction rate is high and image watermark is distinct and readable after print-scan process. And this method is robust against the various attacks of the print-scan process, such as color space conversion, image halftone, D/A conversion, A/D conversion, scaling, rotation, cropping, skew, and random noise signals.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 333-335)
• Pages: 992-997
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.333-335.992
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Yun Lu Ge, Hui Han, Xiao Dong Sun, Sheng Pin Wang, Sheng Yun Ji
• Keywords: CIEL*A*B*, Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), Image Watermark, Print-Scan Process, RGB, Walsh Transform

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