Self Watermarking based on Visual Cryptography

We are proposing a simple watermarking method based on visual cryptography. The method is based on selection of specific pixels from the original image instead of random selection of pixels as per Hwang [1] paper. Verification information is generated which will be used to verify the ownership of the image without the need to embed the watermark pattern into the original digital data. Experimental results show the proposed method can recover the watermark pattern from the marked data even if some changes are made to the original digital data.

Authors:

• Mahmoud A. Hassan
• Mohammed A. Khalili

Keywords:

• Watermarking
• visual cryptography
• visualthreshold.

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