Yong Hyun Cho

The KIPS Transactions:PartB , Vol. 11, No. 7, pp. 813-820, Dec. 2004
10.3745/KIPSTB.2004.11.7.813,   PDF Download:

Abstract

This paper proposes a digital image watermarking which is robust to geometric distortions using an independent component analysis(ICA) of fixed-point(FP) algorithm based on secant method. The FP algorithm of secant method is applied for better performance in a separation time and rate, and ICA is applied to reject the prior knowledges for original image, key, and watermark such as locations and size, etc.. The proposed method embeds the watermark into the spatial domain of original image. The proposed watermarking technique has been applied to lena, key, and two watermarks(text and Gaussian noise) respectively. The simulation results show that the proposed method has higher speed and better rate for extracting the original images than the FP algorithm of Newton method. And the proposed method has a watermarking which is robust to geometric distortions such as resizing, rotation, and cropping. Especially, the watermark of images with Gaussian noise has better extraction performance than the watermark with text since Gaussian noise has lower correlation coefficient than the text to the original and key images, The watermarking of ICA doesn't require the prior knowledge for the original images.

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