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Imperceptible non-blind watermarking and robustness against tone mapping operation attacks for high dynamic range images
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posted on 2019-06-10, 12:21 authored by Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Cagri OzcinarHigh dynamic range (HDR) imaging has experienced a widespread during the
recent years through various technologies, including social network applications, which
necessitates robust watermarking schemes to protect the copyright and image authentication. As watermarked high dynamic range images need to be tone mapped for visualization
purposes on the traditional low dynamic range displays, the associated tone mapping
operators (TMOs) can be deemed inevitable attacks. In this paper, we show that the state-ofthe-art non-blind watermarking algorithms are vulnerable to the TMO’s attacks. Based on
the results of our investigation, we propose an improved non-blind watermarking method
and extensively evaluate with state-of-the-art non-blind watermarking schemes using a
broad set of TMOs’ attacks. The proposed method first divides a given host image into
patches, each of which is then decomposed using the discrete wavelet transform (DWT).
The high-high sub-band of DWT is then passed through chirp-z transformation, followed by
QR decomposition. The proposed solution embeds the watermark into each of value of the
upper triangular matrix obtained from QR decomposition. The efficiency of the proposed
embedding scheme is evaluated by applying 14 different TMOs on the watermarked image
and extracting the embedded watermark. The average of 100 normalized correlation values
for each image is then taken into account as a criterion for comparison, which demonstrates
the noticeably stronger performance of the proposed watermarking scheme with respect to
the state-of-the-art non-blind watermarking alternatives.
Funding
This work has been partially supported by Estonian Information Technology Foundation, Skype Technologies, Estonian Research Council Grant (PUT638), the Estonian Centre of Excellence in IT (EXCITE) funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the European Network on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&L Net) ICT COST Action IC1307.
History
School
- Loughborough University London
Published in
Multimedia Tools and ApplicationsVolume
77Pages
24521 - 24535Citation
ANBARJAFARI, G. and OZCINAR, C., 2018. Imperceptible non-blind watermarking and robustness against tone mapping operation attacks for high dynamic range images. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 77(18), pp. 24521 - 24535.Publisher
© Springer USVersion
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2018Notes
This paper is in closed access.ISSN
1380-7501eISSN
1573-7721Publisher version
Language
- en