An Information Fusion Algorithm Based on Dopplerlet-Hough Transformation

Abstract:

In this paper, a robust image watermarking method with S-Hough transformation is proposed which is robust against geometric distortion. This watermarking is detected by a linear frequency change. The chirp signals are used as watermarks and this type of signals is resistant to all stationary filtering methods and exhibits geometrical symmetry. In the two-dimensional Radon-Wigner transformation domain, the chirp signals used as watermarks change only its position in space/spatial-frequency distribution, after applying linear geometrical attack. But the two-dimensional Radon-Wigner transformation needs too much difficult computing. We propose a modified Hough transformation to provide improved energy concentration of the Dopplerlet transform. The proposed scheme can resolve the time-frequency localization in a better way than the standard Dopplerlet transformation. The watermark is embedded in the 1D improved Dopplerlet transformation domains. The watermark thus generated is invisible and performs well in test and is robust to geometrical attacks. Compared with other watermarking algorithms, this algorithm is more robust, especially against geometric distortion, while having excellent frequency properties.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 605-607)
• Pages: 2211-2216
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.605-607.2211
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Ming Hui Deng, Qing Shuang Zeng, Lan Ying Zhang
• Keywords: Dopplerlet-Hough Transform, Geometrical Attack, Information Fusion

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