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Digital Image Watermarking Scheme Using Discrete Wavelet Transform Domain, Quantization, and Genetic Algorithm | ||
| AL-Rafidain Journal of Computer Sciences and Mathematics | ||
| Article 1, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-27 PDF (695.15 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.33899/csmj.2013.163421 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Nasseer Basheer; Shaymaa S Abdulsalam | ||
| Technical College in Mosul, Mosul, Iraq | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Protection of digital multimedia content has become an increasingly important issue for content owners and service providers. Watermarking is identified as a major means to achieve copyright protection. The algorithm proposed in this work, is to use a blind watermarking scheme based on the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). Watermark components are embedded in the LL subband of the 4th DWT level of the host image by quantizing coefficients of the LL subband to improve the watermark robustness. The Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used for optimizing the quantization step size parameter, and the strength of factors. The host image used is a 512×512 gray scale image and the watermark image is a 32×32 binary logo. The proposed scheme was tested against mostly known threats and it proves to give good robustness. Also, it still gives a high quality watermarked image. MATLAB Program was used to perform the watermarking task. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| DWT; blind watermarking; quantization; GA | ||
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