HE Hong-jie, ZHANG Jia-shu, TIAN Lei. A Fragile Watermarking Scheme with Discrimination of Tampers on Image or Watermark[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2005, 33(9): 1557-1561.
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HE Hong-jie, ZHANG Jia-shu, TIAN Lei. A Fragile Watermarking Scheme with Discrimination of Tampers on Image or Watermark[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2005, 33(9): 1557-1561.DOI:
A Fragile Watermarking Scheme with Discrimination of Tampers on Image or Watermark
The existing fragile watermarking algorithms can't recognize whether the modification made to the watermarked image is on the image contents or the embedded watermark or both tampered by attackers.In this paper a fragile watermarking scheme with discrimination of tampers on image or watermark is proposed.The low-frequency compressed image
whose low-frequency wavelet coefficients of 7 Most Significant Bits (MSBs) of original image are nonuniform scalar quantization
is converted into a binary sequence as the watermark is to be embedded.The improved security watermark scrambled by chaotic systems is embedded into the LSB of the image data.During image authentication
the proposed method is able to detect the tampered location and discriminate tampers on Image or watermark from the difference image between the low-frequency compressed image and reconstructed image by watermark.Theoretic analysis and simulation results show that the proposed algorithm may not only provide excellent results of detecting the tampered location
but also indicate whether the modification made to the watermarked image is on the image contents or the embedded watermark or both.