A Robust Watermarking using Blind Source Separation

In this paper, we present a robust and secure algorithm for watermarking, the watermark is first transformed into the frequency domain using the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Then the entire DWT coefficient except the LL (Band) discarded, these coefficients are permuted and encrypted by specific mixing. The encrypted coefficients are inserted into the most significant spectral components of the stego-image using a chaotic system. This technique makes our watermark non-vulnerable to the attack (like compression, and geometric distortion) of an active intruder, or due to noise in the transmission link.

Authors:

• Anil Kumar
• K. Negrat
• A. M. Negrat
• Abdelsalam Almarimi

Keywords:

• Blind source separation (BSS)
• Chaotic system
• Watermarking
• DWT.

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