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Digital image watermarking is a copyright protection technology expected at asserting intellectual property rights of digital images by embedding a copyright identifier in the contents of the image, without disturbing its quality. In this paper, a new robust and secure color watermarking scheme based on Discrete Wavelet domain is proposed. The RGB color space is converted into HSV color space and the H component is decomposition with ‘Haar’ which is simple, symmetric and orthogonal wavelet. The proposed embedding process, the scrambled watermark is embedded in the modification of the extraordinary value of LL band and LH band of H component to the watermarking scheme which excellent preserves the quality. The supplementary improvement of the proposed technique is taking advantage of HVS which can adaptively regulate the watermark embedding strength. Experimental results show that the method not only has better transparency, but also has good robustness such as noise, compression, filtering, cropping.
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Kumari, G.R.N., Jeeru, S.S., Maruthuperumal, S. (2014). Color Image Watermarking Using Wavelet Transform Based on HVS Channel. In: Satapathy, S., Avadhani, P., Udgata, S., Lakshminarayana, S. (eds) ICT and Critical Infrastructure: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Convention of Computer Society of India- Vol I. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 248. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03107-1_7
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