Digital Watermarking Algorithm Based on Iris Features

According to the picture archiving and communication system that have not introducing of the security mechanism yet, putting forward a security mechanism plan that based on digital watermarking and digital signature technology. Digital watermarking technology could authenticate the copyright of medical image effectively, and digital signature technology could authenticate the identity of sender and receiver. The PACS that introduced digital watermarking and digital signature technology could protect the interests for both hospitals and patients effectively in arbitration time, and became an important relying on for the development of remote medical.

The traditional binary image is no longer sufficient to bring richer information in modern production and life. Color images have more information data than binary images. Based on the development of color image models and digital watermarking technology, this paper uses the Arnold scrambling and DWT-DCT method improves the robustness and invisibility of double color digital image watermarking. The encryption method improves the security of the watermark itself to a certain extent.

Since the Internet of Things(IoT) secret information is easy to leak in data transfer, a data secure transmission model based on compressed sensing(CS) and digital watermarking technology is proposed here. Firstly, for node coding end, the digital watermarking technology is used to embed secret information in the conventional data carrier. Secondly, these data are reused to build the target transfer data by the CS algorithm which are called observed signals. Thirdly, these signals are transmitted to the base station through the wireless channel. After obtaining these observed signals, the decoder reconstructs the data carrier containing privacy information. Finally, the privacy information is obtained by digital watermark extraction algorithm to achieve the secret transmission of signals. By adopting the watermarking and compression sensing to hide secret information in the end of node code, the algorithm complexity and energy consumption are reduced. Meanwhile, the security of secret information is increased. The simulation results show that the method is able to accurately reconstruct the original signal and the energy consumption of the sensor node is also reduced significantly in consideration of the packet loss.

This paper concerns the digital watermarking technology on three different processing stages in order to enhance the robustness of digital watermarking under the premise of invisibility. (1) The first stage is watermark signal pre-processing. The watermark signal created using binary gray images is taken the highly nonlinear processing by the chaotic function first and then by the neural network, which enhances the degree of watermark confidentiality greatly, (2) The second stage is watermark embedding strength degree. First a neural network is constructed and trained. The trained neural network can be used in watermark embedding and extraction by which a watermark algorithm can be achieved to do blind detection, (3) The third stage is watermark embedding and extraction. The treated watermark signal is embedded into the airspace of the original image through the trained neural network. And the neural network is also used to extract and detect the watermark. Proved by experimental results, this algorithm has good robustness.

Commutative encryption and watermarking (CEW) is an emerging method that combines encryption technology with digital watermarking technology. It has the dual capability of secure transmission and copyright protection. However, the existing CEW methods for vector maps have good robustness in resisting geometric attacks but poor resistance to vertex attacks (e.g., addition, deletion, etc.). To solve this problem, here we propose a novel invariant-based CEW algorithm for vector maps, which consists of permutation-based encryption scheme and coordinates-based watermarking scheme. In the encryption scheme, the encryption key is generated via the Gaussian distribution method combined with the SHA-512 hash method; then, the double random position permutation strategy is applied to the vector map encryption. In watermarking embedding scheme, the original watermark image is scrambled via logistic chaotic encryption before embedding, and the coordinates of all the vertices are normalized. Then, the scrambled watermark image is embedded into the normalized coordinates. Results show that: proposed method is more robust to conventional attacks (e.g., vertex addition and deletion, reordering and data format conversion) and geometric attacks (e.g., scaling and translation). In addition, compared with the existing CEW methods for vector maps, the proposed method has higher security and stronger robustness against vertex attacks.

With the rapid development of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AIGC) technology, the creation and dissemination of digital content have entered a new era. However, issues such as copyright protection, security, and traceability of these generated contents are gradually becoming prominent, and effective technological measures are still needed to address them. Digital watermarking technology, as an effective means to solve these problems, has a wide range of application prospects. This study proposes a new digital watermarking algorithm specifically targeting the characteristics of AIGC generated content, aiming to address the shortcomings of existing technologies in terms of concealment, robustness, and security. By comparing and analyzing existing technologies, improvement plans were proposed and optimized and experimentally verified. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively improve the copyright protection capability of content while ensuring the concealment of watermarks, and has good application prospects.

Biometric watermarking was introduced as the synergistic integration of biometrics and digital watermarking technology. This paper proposes a novel biometric watermarking technique, which embeds offline handwritten signature in host image for copyright protection. We propose to combine the conventional LSB-based and DWT-based watermarking techniques into a unison framework, which is known as LSB-DWT in this paper. The proposed LSB-DWT technique is evaluated against various simulated security attacks, i.e. JPEG compression, Gaussian low-pass filtering, median filtering, Gaussian noise, scaling, rotation and cropping. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed LSB-DWT technique exhibits remarkable watermark imperceptibility and watermark robustness.KeywordsBiometric watermarkingoffline handwritten signaturecopyright protection

A Multiple Watermarking Algorithm for Texts Mixed Chinese and English

In this paper, a robust algorithm of digital image watermarking based on discrete wavelet transform is introduced It uses blind watermarking technique. Digital image watermarking is one such technology that has been developed to protect digital images from illegal manipulations. In particular, digital image watermarking algorithms which are based on the discrete wavelet transform have been widely recognized to be more prevalent than others. This is due to the wavelets' excellent spatial localization, frequency spread, and multi-resolution characteristics, which are similar to the theoretical models of the human visual system.

Due to the problem that the many digital images can be modified more and more easily, watermarking algorithms are proposed. There are many types of digital watermarking algorithms, such as robust digital watermarking algorithms, watermarking schemes for authentication, and reversible digital watermarking algorithms. However, there are some special images, such as the digital medical images for remote treatment, the military images for tracking object, and the remote sensing images, and they are so sensitive to any modification that we should authenticate the copyright by special technique. And this technique is zero-bit watermarking algorithms. In this paper, about zero-bit watermarking algorithms are surveyed. The basic procedures of these classical algorithms are analyzed, and some suggestion about the zero-bit algorithms is given.

As an important means of information security and copyright protection, digital watermarking technology has been extensive researched and widely applied; it proves data’s ownership or integrity by embedding secret information into raw data, thus achieves the purpose of copyright protection and information security. Based on the analysis and research of wavelet transformation, this study achieves to embed digital watermarking into the oracle bone inscriptions rubbings. Experimental results show that this method has a stronger robustness to altering and cutting of images.

This paper proposes a digital watermarking algorithm of combining the chaos with the wavelet transform. Firstly, three-color separation is performed over dual carrier images; secondly, chaotic scrambling is carried out over RGB components of the watermark using different secret keys, followed by wavelet transform; then, corresponding components are embedded, allowing for improved watermark security, as different secret keys are used for different components; furthermore, according to the property of human vision system being variably sensitive to different regions of the wavelet transformed image, the watermark is embedded into medium and low frequency domain of wavelet transform, so as to balance transparency and robustness of the watermark. Experimental results show that this watermarking algorithm has kept image quality relatively well with high security, and exhibited good robustness to such attacks as Gaussian and compression etc.

The growth of network multimedia systems has expanded the demand for image copyright protection. Digital watermark is one approach which is often used for image copyright protection. However, there are limitations of robustness and confidentiality in the common digital watermarking algorithms to resist print-scan attacks. In this paper, a new method combining zero watermarking, blind watermarking and Arnold scrambling is proposed. The zero-watermarking algorithm in DCT low-frequency region avoids the limitation of watermarking capacity to a certain extent. And it has a certain degree of stability and adaptability as well as a strong anti-interference ability to the geometric attacks. In the intermediate-frequency region, the blind watermarking algorithm is used to embed the scrambling information of the watermark and it is robust. With such multilayer enciphering, the confidentiality of the watermark is improved. The whole method has made great progress in the resistance of the geometric attacks and confidentiality of watermark. It's proved that the method is an applicable method against print-scan attacks. It has a certain reference value to the study of digital image watermark.

Multiple digital watermarking is an important and challenging task in geographic information science and data security. Vector geographic data are a basic data format for digital geographic data storage, and the security protection of these data involves copyright protection and tracking. As part of the solution, existing digital watermarking algorithms have made contributions to vector geographic data protection. However, when vector geographic data flow through multiple units, they need to be marked to ensure that the original data are not destroyed during data processing. Existing single or multiple data watermarking algorithms often fail in the presence of data processing because the new watermarks overlay the old ones. Consequently, a multiple digital watermarking algorithm based on multiple QIM (quantization index modulation) is proposed. First, based on traditional quantization index modulation (QIM), a multiple QIM is proposed. Unlike traditional QIM, in multiple QIM, the process of quantization is executed multiple times depending on the number of watermarks. Then, the vertices are quantized into different quantization intervals according to the multiple QIM. Finally, multiple watermarks are embedded into different quantization intervals to reduce the interference among multiple watermarks, and the original watermarks are not needed in the process of watermark detection. We then conducted experiments to test the multiple watermark method’s robustness and capacity, with an emphasis on datasets with a lower data volume. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves good performance in terms of its robustness against common issues, such as vertices addition, data simplification, data cropping, and feature deletion; this holds true for both normal and small amounts of data. Additionally, it has a high multiple watermark capacity.

A watermarking algorithm of color images based on the quaternion Fourier Transform (QFFT) and improved quantization index algorithm (QIM) is proposed in this paper. The original image is transformed by QFFT, the watermark image is processed by compression and quantization coding, and then the processed watermark image is embedded into the components of the transformed original image. It achieves embedding and blind extraction of the watermark image. The experimental results show that the watermarking algorithm based on the improved QIM algorithm with distortion compensation achieves a good tradeoff between invisibility and robustness, and better robustness for the attacks of Gaussian noises, salt and pepper noises, JPEG compression, cropping, filtering and image enhancement than the traditional QIM algorithm.