Psychovisual approach for watermarking

Florent Autrusseau; Abdelhakim Saadane; Dominique Barba

doi:10.1117/12.435433

1 August 2001 Psychovisual approach for watermarking

Florent Autrusseau, Abdelhakim Saadane, Dominique Barba

Proceedings Volume 4314, Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents III; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.435433
Event: Photonics West 2001 - Electronic Imaging, 2001, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The work presented here deals with watermarking algorithms. The goal is to show how the Human Visual System (H.V.S) properties can be taken into account in the conception of such algorithms. The construction of the watermarking algorithm presented in this paper needs three steps. In the first one the selection of auspicious sites for the watermark embedding is described. The selection exploits a multi-channel model of the Human Visual System which decomposes the visual input into seventeen perceptual components. Medium and high frequencies are then selected to generate a sites map. This latter is improved by considering some high level uniform areas. The second step deals with the choice of the strength to apply to the selected sites. The strength is determined by considering the H.V.S. sensitivity to the local band limited contrast. In the third step, examples of spatial watermarking embedding and extraction are given. The same perceptual mask has been successfully used in other studies. The watermark results from a binary pseudo-random sequence, of length 64, which is circularly shifted so as to occupy all the sites mentioned above. The watermark extraction exploits the detection theory and requires both the perceptual mask and the original watermark. The extracted watermark is then compared to the original and a normalized correlation coefficient is computed. This coefficient value allows the detection of the copyright.

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Florent Autrusseau, Abdelhakim Saadane, and Dominique Barba "Psychovisual approach for watermarking", Proc. SPIE 4314, Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents III, (1 August 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.435433

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