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Improving Watermark Resistance against Removal Attacks Using Orthogonal Wavelet Adaptation

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SOFSEM 2012: Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2012)

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This paper proposes a new approach for enhancing the robustness of wavelet-based image watermarking algorithms. The method adjusts wavelet used in the process of image watermarking in order to maximize resistance against image processing operations. Effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated using blind multiplicative watermarking algorithm, but it can easily be generalized to all wavelet-based watermarking algorithms. Presented results demonstrate that wavelets generated using proposed approach outperform other wavelet bases commonly used in image watermarking in terms of robustness to removal attacks.

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  1. Institute of Information Technology, Technical University of Lodz, Poland

    Jan Stolarek & Piotr Lipiński

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  1. Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Institute of Informatics and Software Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 3, 842 16, Bratislava 4, Slovakia

    Mária Bieliková

  2. Dept. of Intelligent Systems and Business Informatics, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Universitätsstr. 65-57, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Gerhard Friedrich

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK

    Georg Gottlob

  4. Security Engineering Group, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 10, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Katzenbeisser

  5. University of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. of Math., Stat. and Comp. Sci, 851 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7045, USA; and University of Szeged, Research Group on Artificial Intelligence of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 6701 Szeged, Postafiók, Hungary

    György Turán

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Stolarek, J., Lipiński, P. (2012). Improving Watermark Resistance against Removal Attacks Using Orthogonal Wavelet Adaptation. In: Bieliková, M., Friedrich, G., Gottlob, G., Katzenbeisser, S., Turán, G. (eds) SOFSEM 2012: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7147. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27660-6_48

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