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A Robust Watermarking Scheme with High Security and Low Computational Complexity

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Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2020)

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Implementing a watermarking algorithm with high security and low computational complexity is a challenge, especially at a limited distortion level. A novel watermarking scheme is proposed in this paper, which is based on Tent-Logistic-Cosine Map (TLCM) and Direct Current (DC) coefficient modification. Firstly, the watermark is encrypted by a matrix obtained from TLCM. Then, the cover image is divided into non-overlapping \(4 \times 4\) sub-blocks and some blocks are selected randomly. Thereafter, the DC coefficients of selected blocks are calculated directly in the spatial domain without performing two-dimensional discrete cosine transform. Finally, using the proposed watermark embedding procedure, DC coefficients of selected blocks are updated according to the encrypted watermark bits. Results show that the proposed watermarking algorithm has high security and low computational complexity at a limited distortion.

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Acknowledgments

This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61801131 and 61661008, the Guangxi Natural Science Foundation under Grants 2017GXNSFAA198180, the funding of Overseas 100 Talents Program of Guangxi Higher Education, 2018 Guangxi One Thousand Young and Middle-Aged College and University Backbone Teachers Cultivation Program, Research Fund of Guangxi Key Lab of Multi-source Information Mining & Security (19-A-03-02), Research Fund of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Wireless Wideband Communication and Signal Processing, and the Young and Middle-aged Teachers’ Research Ability Improvement Project in Guangxi Universities under Grant 2020KY02030.

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  1. School of Electronic Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004, China

    Liangjia Li, Yuling Luo, Junxiu Liu, Senhui Qiu & Lanhang Li

  2. Guangxi Key Lab of Multi-source Information Mining and Security, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004, China

    Yuling Luo

  3. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Wireless Wideband Communication and Signal Processing, Guilin, 541004, China

    Senhui Qiu

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Li, L., Luo, Y., Liu, J., Qiu, S., Li, L. (2020). A Robust Watermarking Scheme with High Security and Low Computational Complexity. In: Park, N., Sun, K., Foresti, S., Butler, K., Saxena, N. (eds) Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. SecureComm 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 336. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63095-9_28

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