Wavelet Tree Quantization for Copyright Protection Watermarking

S.-H. Wang, Y.-P. Lin
2004 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing  
This paper proposes a wavelet-tree-based blind watermarking scheme for copyright protection. The wavelet coefficients of the host image are grouped into so-called super trees. The watermark is embedded by quantizing super trees. The trees are so quantized that they exhibit a large enough statistical difference, which will later be used for watermark extraction. Each watermark bit is embedded in perceptually important frequency bands, which renders the mark more resistant to frequency based
more » ... ks. Also, the watermark is spread throughout large spatial regions. This yields more robustness against time domain geometric attacks. Examples of various attacks will be given to demonstrate the robustness of the proposed technique.
doi:10.1109/tip.2004.823822 pmid:15376937 fatcat:e46oka4ovrcuboxvvx2n6ammoy