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With the advancement of image devices, massive image data are being generated exponentially, which indirectly leads to more copyright issues over the images. Image watermarking is an important method for copyright protection. Considering that color images dominate the real-world image data, designing copyright protection techniques specially for color images are very meaningful. In this paper, we propose a robust blind watermarking scheme for color images based on quaternion Fourier transform (QFT). After converting the color image data into QFT coefficients, we embed the watermark message into the four channels in QFT domain, to improve the embedding capacity and robustness. We also conduct experiment to investigate the performance of visual quality and robustness, by comparing with some other common signal transforms. The experimental results show that our scheme achieves a satisfactory performance.
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This work was supported in part by the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation under Grant 2019A1515010746, in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant 19LGPY218, in part by the NSFC under Grant 61502547 and Grant 61672551, in part by Guangdong Science and Technology Plan Project under Grant 2013B090800009. in part by the Guangzhou Science and Technology Plan Project under Grant 2014Y2-00019 and Grant 201707010167.
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Liang, R., Zheng, P., Fang, Y., Song, T. (2020). A Robust Blind Watermarking Scheme for Color Images Using Quaternion Fourier Transform. In: Sun, X., Wang, J., Bertino, E. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Security. ICAIS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12240. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57881-7_55
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