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In this paper, a self-recovery fragile watermarking scheme for image authentication is proposed to improve the performance of tamper detection and tamper recovery. The proposed scheme embeds the encrypted feature comprising 6-bit recovery data and 2-bit key-based data of the image block into the least significant bits (LBS) of its mapping block. The validity of a test block is determined by comparing the number of inconsistent blocks in the 3×3 block-neighborhood of the test block with that of its mapping block. Moreover, to improve the quality of the recovered image, the 3×3 block-neighborhood is also used to recover the tampered blocks whose feature hidden in another block is corrupted. Experimental result demonstrates that the proposed method outperforms conventional self-recovery fragile watermarking algorithms in tamper detection and tamper recovery under various attacks. Additionally, the proposed scheme is not vulnerable to the collage attack, constant-average attack and four-scanning attack.
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He, HJ., Zhang, JS., Tai, HM. (2009). Self-recovery Fragile Watermarking Using Block-Neighborhood Tampering Characterization. In: Katzenbeisser, S., Sadeghi, AR. (eds) Information Hiding. IH 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5806. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04431-1_10
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