A novel blind color images watermarking based on SVD

• Published in: Optik (Stuttgart) Vol. 125; no. 12; pp. 2868 - 2874
• Main Author: Jia, Shao-li
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier GmbH 01.06.2014
• Subjects: Blinds; Blurring; Color; Color image; Filtering; Similarity; SVD; U matrix; Watermark; Watermarking; SVD; U matrix; Watermark; Color image
• ISSN: 0030-4026; 1618-1336
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2014.01.002

Since the color image watermark has more bit information, it is a challenging problem to design a robust and blind color watermarking scheme for copyright protection. In this paper, a blind watermarking scheme based on singular value decomposition (SVD) is proposed. By analyzing the orthogonal matrix U via SVD, it is found that there exists a strong similarity correlation between the second row first column element and the third row first column element. Hence, this paper utilizes this property for image watermarking. Firstly, the 4×4 non-overlapping pixels block of each component in color host image is processed by SVD. And then, the color watermark is embedded by slightly modifying the value of the second row first column element and the third row first column one of U matrix, and the modified relation can be utilized to extract watermark. Experimental results, compared with the related existing methods, show that the proposed color image scheme has stronger robustness against most common attacks such as image compression, filtering, cropping, noise adding, blurring, scaling and sharpening et al.