Collusion Attack Resistant Watermarking Scheme for Colored Images using DCT.docVIP

IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, 34:2, IJCS_34_2_02 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Collusion Attack Resistant Watermarking Scheme for Colored Images using DCT Vikas Saxena, J.P Gupta discussed by Koch and Zhao [8] and further explained by Abstract- Image watermarking with both insensible detection Johnson and Katezenbeisser [9]. Later Hsu and Wu also used and high robustness capabilities is still a challenging problem for the DCT based algorithm to implement the middle band copyright protection up to now. This paper presents a new scheme for hiding a logo-based watermark in colored still image which is inherently collusion attack resistant. This scheme is based on averaging of middle frequency coefficients of block Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficients of an image. It is different from earlier schemes based on middle frequency coefficient by mean of high redundancy, to sustain malicious embedding [10]. Further one more efficient collusion attack resistant scheme has been presented based on middle-band coefficients exchange [42]. Collusion attack is the severe problem for some applications of watermarking like fingerprinting which involve high financial implications. So while designing a watermark scheme we are taking this attack as a prime. [43]- [45] attacks. Experimental results show the robustness of the proposed scheme against the JPEG compression and other common image manipulations. Our main motivation behind selecting middle-band coefficients exchange scheme as a base is that this scheme has Index Terms- Collusion attack, Discrete Cosine Transform proven its robustness against those attacks which any how do (DCT), Image watermarking, JPEG compression. not affect the perceptual quality