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Chaotic watermark for blind forgery detection in images

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In this paper, a new chaos based watermarking scheme for effective tamper detection in images is proposed. The proposed scheme is able to detect any possible forgery and spot the areas which have been tampered. To improve the efficiency of the proposed scheme, a binary watermark is constructed from the image itself, which makes the watermark unique for every image and guarantee the blindness in the detection process. To guarantee the security of the proposed scheme, chaotic maps are used to complicate the embedding and the detection process to reduce the vulnerability to different attacks. Experimental results and security analysis show that the proposed scheme achieves superior tamper detection under common attacks.

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Acknowledgments

We sincerely thank the two ministries of scientific research in Egypt and Tunisia (Egypt-Tunisia Cooperation Programme:4-13-A1) for their valuable support. The authors are also thankful to the editor and the anonymous reviewers for their advices, valuable comments and suggestions that improved the technical and editorial quality of this paper.

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    Present address: Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Menoufia University, Shebin El-Koom, 32511, Egypt

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    Oussama Benrhouma, Houcemeddine Hermassi & Safya Belghith

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Benrhouma, O., Hermassi, H., Abd El-Latif, A.A. et al. Chaotic watermark for blind forgery detection in images. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 8695–8718 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-2786-z

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