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Visible watermarking is a common intellectual property protection mechanism for digital images. It is fulfilled by translucently overlaying a visual logo and/or a segment of text onto an image to declare the ownership of the image and thus deterring unauthorized usage to the image. This paper presents a novel visible watermarking technique by considering HVS characteristics and applying a distance transform function to evaluate appropriate stamping strength for individual watermark pixels. It exhibits lucid watermark pattern under moderate modification to the host image. Compare to uniform-contrast watermarks generated using conventional HVS based visible watermark schemes, the proposed method achieves better balance to the visual quality between the watermark and the image content beneath it.
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Chou, GJ., Wang, RZ., Lee, YK., Yang, C.Y. (2018). A Novel Visible Watermarking Scheme Based on Distance Transform. In: Pan, JS., Tsai, PW., Watada, J., Jain, L. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing. IIH-MSP 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 81. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63856-0_38
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