3D model watermarking algorithm robust to geometric attacks

• Published in: IET image processing Vol. 11; no. 10; pp. 822 - 832
• Main Authors: Wang, Yinghui, Liu, Jing, Yang, Yajie, Ma, Douli, Liu, Ruijiao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Institution of Engineering and Technology 01.10.2017
• Subjects: 3D model watermarking; embedding position; embedding strength; geometric attacks; image resolution; image watermarking; invariant space; low‐resolution group; medium‐resolution group; smoothing attacks; Special Issue: Advances in Big Data Methods for Image Processing; vertex local set; visual quality; watermarking information; low-resolution group; image watermarking; vertex local set; visual quality; medium-resolution group; watermarking information; geometric attacks; smoothing attacks; 3D model watermarking; embedding strength; invariant space; embedding position; image resolution
• ISSN: 1751-9659; 1751-9667; 1751-9667
• DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr.2016.0927

A 3D model watermarking method robust to geometric attacks is proposed. The vertices of the model are classified into three groups. The vertices of the low-resolution group are used to establish an invariant space in which to resist geometric attacks. In the medium-resolution group, appropriate vertices in which to embed the watermarking information are selected. The selection of vertices that contain information about the watermark is based on the area of the local set of the vertex, the curvature of which determines the embedding strength of the watermark. The vertices of the high-resolution group are reserved for resisting simplification and smoothing attacks. The choice of the embedding position and the embedding strength can provide a suitable trade-off between good transparency and maximum robustness of the proposed method. The simulation results show that, compared to existing state-of-the-art methods, the proposed method is robust against attacks such as noise, smoothing, simplification, cropping, rotation, translation, and scaling while ensuring high visual quality of the watermarked model.