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A duple watermarking strategy for multi-channel quantum images

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Utilizing a stockpile of efficient transformations consisting of channel of interest, channel swapping, and quantum Fourier transforms, a duple watermarking strategy on multi-channel quantum images is proposed. It embeds the watermark image both into the spatial domain and the frequency domain of the multi-channel quantum carrier image, while also providing a quantum measurement-based algorithm to generate an unknown key that is used to protect the color information, which accompanies another key that is mainly used to scramble the spatial content of the watermark image in order to further safeguard the copyright of the carrier image. Simulation-based experiments using a watermark logo and nine building images as watermark image and carrier images, respectively, offer a duple protection for the copyright of carrier images in terms of the visible quality of the watermarked images. The proposed stratagem advances available literature in the quantum watermarking research field and sets the stage for the applications aimed at quantum data protection.

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Acknowledgments

The study was sponsored in full by the Salman Bin Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia via the Deanship for Scientific Research Project Number 2014/01/2079. SEVA gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Tecnológico de Monterrey—Escuela de Ciencias e Ingeniería and CONACyT (SNI member Number 41594). FY would like to acknowledge the suggestions and support of Dr. Jiajun Lu towards the successful completion of the work presented.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, No. 7089, Weixing Road, Changchun, 130022, China

    Fei Yan

  2. Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, 226-8502, Japan

    Fei Yan, Abdullah M. Iliyasu, Bo Sun, Fangyan Dong & Kaoru Hirota

  3. College of Engineering, Salman Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, 11942, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Abdullah M. Iliyasu

  4. Tecnológico de Monterrey - Escuela de Ciencias e Ingeniería and Campus Estado de México, Carretera al Lago de Guadalupe KM. 3.5, Atizapán de Zaragoza, Estado de México, CP 52926, México

    Salvador E. Venegas-Andraca

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Yan, F., Iliyasu, A.M., Sun, B. et al. A duple watermarking strategy for multi-channel quantum images. Quantum Inf Process 14, 1675–1692 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-014-0912-x

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