A robust region-adaptive dual image watermarking technique

Despite the progress in digital image watermarking technology, the main objectives of the majority of research in this area remain to be the improvement in robustness to attack. In this paper, a novel watermarking technique is proposed using a region-adaptive approach to further improve upon criteria. Watermark data is embedded on different regions of the host image using a combination of Discrete Wavelet Transform and Singular Value Decomposition techniques. The technique is derived from an earlier hypothesis that the robustness of a watermarking process can be improved by using watermark data which frequency spectrum not dissimilar to that of the host data. To facilitate this, the technique utilises dual watermarking technologies and embed parts of the watermark images into selected regions in the host image. Our experiment shows our technique has improved the robustness of the watermark data to image processing attacks and geometric attacks, thus validating the earlier hypothesis.

► Analysis watermark attacks. ► Region-adaptive watermarking system scheme. ► Robust against watermarking attacks.