Improved image watermarking using guided image filtering
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Author list: Chotikawanid P., Amornraksa T.
Publisher: Hindawi
Publication year: 2017
Start page: 449
End page: 453
Number of pages: 5
ISBN: 9781450353656
ISSN: 0146-9428
eISSN: 1745-4557
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
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Abstract
An improved version of image watermarking method based on regularized filter is proposed in this paper. The proposed method applies the concept of guided image filtering to improve the watermark extraction performance, while preserving the property of blind watermark detection. In the embedding process, the S component of the HSV color space is selected to carry a binary watermark image. In the extraction process, a guided image filter is introduced and utilized to estimate the original embedding component. The result is subtracted with the watermarked component to acquire the extracted watermark without using the original un-watermarked component. At equivalent quality of watermarked images in terms of weighted Peak Signal to Noise Ratio, the results demonstrate that our proposed method is capable of providing a higher quality of extracted watermark in terms of watermark to noise ratio. In addition, it provides higher robustness against various types of attacks from Stirmark, compared to the previous method. ฉ 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.
Keywords
Guided image filter, Regularized filter, Spatial domain
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