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Analysis of frequency domain watermarking techniques in presence of geometric and simple attacks

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Protection of manuscript accessible online is always an apprehension for researchers. Many ideas had come up for copyright protection and authentication of such documents. One of the admired keys to provide safety to the owner’s data is digital watermarking. It is the process of hiding the secret message (text, audio, image, logo, signature) into the document for providing authentication. A watermarking mechanism is said to be effectual if it offers high imperceptibility, robustness against attacks, security and last but not the least has the high correlation value of extracted watermark with the original one. Numerous survey papers are available in literature taking only a few techniques or parameters into account, but this paper takes almost all frequency domain (standalone and hybrid) methods in absence and presence of geometric and simple attacks and does an exhaustive analysis on the same. MATLAB software is used for implementation. Results illustrate the superlative technique under the influence of simple attacks is DWT-FFT, and under geometric attacks DWT-SVD is preeminent.

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Chopra, A., Gupta, S. & Dhall, S. Analysis of frequency domain watermarking techniques in presence of geometric and simple attacks. Multimed Tools Appl 79, 501–554 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08087-x

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