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A robust image watermarking scheme in hybrid transform domains resisting to rotation attacks

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Image watermarking provides a promising solution to digital media copyright protection. However, the robust performance of the watermarking scheme should be carefully considered. In this paper, we propose a robust image watermarking scheme, which shows good robustness against common watermarking attacks and rotation attacks. The hybrid method based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) helps concentrate the image energy and improve the robust performance of the image watermarking scheme. Besides, the employment of singular value decomposition (SVD) makes the proposed scheme more robust against rotation attack. We conduct experiments on the visual quality and the robustness of our watermarking scheme. The experimental results are generally satisfactory.

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This work was supported in part by the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation under Grant 2019A1515010746 and Grant 2015A030310319, in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant 19LGPY218, in part by the NSFC under Grant 61502547, and in part by the Opening Project of GuangDong Province Key Laboratory of Information Security Technology under Grant 2017B030314131.

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Zheng, P., Zhang, Y. A robust image watermarking scheme in hybrid transform domains resisting to rotation attacks. Multimed Tools Appl 79, 18343–18365 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08490-4

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