Visible Watermarking for Halftone Images

Jeng-Shyang PAN
Hao LUO
Zhe-Ming LU

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E90-A    No.7    pp.1487-1490
Publication Date: 2007/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e90-a.7.1487
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Information Security
Keyword: 
visible watermarking,  halftone image,  

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Summary: 
This letter proposes a visible watermarking scheme for halftone images. It exploits HVS filtering to transform the image in binary domain into continuous-tone domain for watermark embedding. Then a codeword search operation converts the watermarked continuous-tone image into binary domain. The scheme is flexible for two weighting factors are involved to adjust the watermark embedding strength and the average intensity of the watermarked image. Moreover, it can be used in some applications where original continuous-tone images are not available and the halftoning method is unknown.


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