An Artificial Intelligent Technique for Robust Digital Watermarking in Multiwavelet Domain

In this paper, an artificial intelligent technique for robust digital image watermarking in multiwavelet domain is proposed. The embedding technique is based on the quantization index modulation technique and the watermark extraction process does not require the original image. We have developed an optimization technique using the genetic algorithms to search for optimal quantization steps to improve the quality of watermarked image and robustness of the watermark. In addition, we construct a prediction model based on image moments and back propagation neural network to correct an attacked image geometrically before the watermark extraction process begins. The experimental results show that the proposed watermarking algorithm yields watermarked image with good imperceptibility and very robust watermark against various image processing attacks.

Authors:

• P. Kumsawat
• K. Pasitwilitham
• K. Attakitmongcol
• A. Srikaew

Keywords:

• Watermarking
• Multiwavelet
• Quantization index modulation
• Genetic algorithms
• Neural networks.

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