Robust IHWT- CRT Image Watermarking using YCbCr Color Space

Abstract

Abstract This research proposes a watermarking method that combines Integer Haar Wavelet Transform (IHWT) and Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) algorithms on RGB images that are converted to YCbCr color space. The goal is to get a watermarking method that is robust, imperceptible and secure. Robust because with IHWT done on component Y as a place to insert a watermark done on the frequency domain that is resistant to attack. Whereas CRT is an insertion method in a spatial domain that is relatively more imperceptible to human vision, CRT also more secure because CRT is a cryptographic algorithm. Based on the results of the test and bookkeeping of the imperceptibility quality, the average PSNR value is above 48dB and the average SSIM is above 0.99. Whereas the robustness test proves that by using the YCbCr color space the increase in resistance occurs in Gaussian noise, JPEG compression and JPEG 2000 compression with an average NC value above 0.8.