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A new watermarking scheme for colour images captured by mobile phone cameras

  • A. Al-Gindy
  • , H. Al-Ahmad
  • , R. Qahwaji
  • , A. Tawfik
  • University of Bradford
  • Khalifa University of Science and Technology

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Abstract

A new frequency domain based watermarking scheme for colour images captured by mobile phone cameras is proposed. The proposed technique embeds personal mobile phone numbers inside the image. The aim of the scheme is to protect the copy right ownership of the image. Each bit of the decimal digits is inserted onto one low frequency coefficient of one of the DCT blocks of the host image. A DCT coefficient selection (DCS) process has been applied to increase the invisibility qualities, this process managed to find the coefficient with the maximum magnitude. Different embedding location depending on the spatial frequencies of the host image will be selected. The proposed algorithm achieves a high PSNR values and is found to be robust against JPEG compression and different image manipulation algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 9th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, VIIP 2009
Pages231-236
Number of pages6
StatePublished - 2009
Event9th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, VIIP 2009 - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Duration: 13 Jul 200915 Jul 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 9th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, VIIP 2009

Conference

Conference9th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, VIIP 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityCambridge
Period13/07/0915/07/09

Keywords

  • Blind
  • Colour image
  • DCT
  • Error detection
  • Watermarking

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