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Efficient Image Authentication and Tamper Localization Algorithm Using Active Watermarking

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Due to the increasing number of forged images and possibilities of effortless digital manipulations, certain organizations have started to focus on approaches that help preserve their digital data integrity. Image authentication systems try to accurately verify the integrity of digital images, of which digital watermarking is known to be one of the most precise techniques in authenticating the originality of digital images. This chapter has presented a novel image authentication system with accurate tamper localization ability. In the proposed algorithm a 16-bit watermark key has been created from each block of pixels in a host image. The generated 16-bit watermark key will be embedded into the host image by utilizing a fragile watermarking algorithm. The security of the watermarking algorithm will be ensured by using the proposed block cipher algorithm, which encrypts the user key and watermarking algorithm. The proposed tamper detection algorithm conducts two comprehensive comparisons, to ensure the accuracy of the results. The high quality watermarks and powerful tamper detection approaches, along with less computational complexity are the main advantages of the proposed image authentication system, which makes it suitable for real-time application. Several tampering experiments have been conducted to examine the proposed algorithm. The experiment results have clearly proved that, the proposed method is not only efficient, but also very accurate in detecting different types of digital image manipulations, such as, small region tampering, cropping tampering and bit tampering.

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  1. Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 54100 , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Sajjad Dadkhah

  2. Advanced Informatics School, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 54100 , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Azizah Abd Manaf

  3. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Somayeh Sadeghi

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  2. Multimedia Control and Assurance Laboratory, Hannam University, Taejeon, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

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  3. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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  4. Faculty of Engineering, Al Azhar University, Qena, Egypt

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Dadkhah, S., Manaf, A.A., Sadeghi, S. (2014). Efficient Image Authentication and Tamper Localization Algorithm Using Active Watermarking. In: Hassanien, A., Kim, TH., Kacprzyk, J., Awad, A. (eds) Bio-inspiring Cyber Security and Cloud Services: Trends and Innovations. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 70. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43616-5_5

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