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Multipurpose watermarking scheme via intelligent method and chaotic map

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In this paper, we propose a novel multipurpose intelligent image watermarking scheme for both content authentication and copyright protection. To achieve this, we first utilize integer discrete wavelet transform (IDWT) for watermark insertion and detection. The low frequency component of IDWT is used to insert a robust watermark (e.g., the copyright information) for copyright protection, whereas the high frequency component of IDWT is used to embed a fragile watermark (e.g., the logo data) for content authentication. To achieve a good tradeoff among the watermark conflicting requirements (e.g., robustness, fidelity and capacity), we develop an artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm for optimal parameter selection. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves promising performance in both copyright protection and content authentication simultaneously, which confirm the superiority of our proposed algorithm as compared to existing methods.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported partly by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61402296, 61571304, and 61427806), National Key Research and Development Project (No. 2016YFC0104703), the (Key) Project of Department of Education of Guangdong Province (No. 2014GXM052), Shenzhen Key Basic Research Project (Nos. JCYJ20150525092940986), Guangdong Medical Grant (No. B2016094), Open Fund Project of Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Processing and Intelligent Control (Minjiang University) (No. MJUKF201711) and the National Natural Science Foundation of Shenzhen University (No. 2016077).

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  1. School of Biomedical Engineering, National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China

    Baiying Lei, Xin Zhao, Dong Ni, Siping Chen & Tianfu Wang

  2. College of Computer Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

    Haijun Lei

  3. George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 813 Ferst Drive, NW, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0405, USA

    Feng Zhou

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Lei, B., Zhao, X., Lei, H. et al. Multipurpose watermarking scheme via intelligent method and chaotic map. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 27085–27107 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4743-5

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