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A robust digital image watermarking scheme based on Pseudo-Zernike moments and image normalization is proposed. The goal is to resist both geometric distortion and common signals processing. We construct the geometrically invariant space by using image normalization. The Pseudo-Zernike moments of the normalized image are computed, and some low-order Pseudo-Zernike moments are selected. We embed digital watermark into the host image by quantizing the magnitudes of the selected Pseudo-Zernike moments. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed watermarking scheme is robust to a wide range of geometric attacks and common signals processing.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60773031 & 60873222, the Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology of China under Grant No. SKLNST-2008-1-01, the Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Information Security of China under Grant No. 03-06, the Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology of China under Grant No. A200702, the Open Foundation of Key Laboratory of Modern Acoustics Nanjing University under Grant No. 08-02, and Liaoning Research Project for Institutions of Higher Education of China under Grant No. 2008351.
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Wang, XY., Hou, LM. A new robust digital image watermarking based on Pseudo-Zernike moments. Multidim Syst Sign Process 21, 179–196 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11045-009-0096-1
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