Reversible Watermarking Techniques

Abstract

Digital content security gained immense attention over past two decades due rapid digitization of industries and government sectors, and providing security to digital content became a vital challenge. Digital watermarking is one prominent solution to protect digital content from tamper detection and content authentication. However, digital watermarking can alter sensitive information present on cover-content during embedding, then the recovery of exact cover-content may not be possible during extraction process. Moreover, certain applications may not allow small distortions in cover-content. Hence, reversible watermarking techniques of digital content can extract cover-content and watermark completely. Additionally, reversible watermarking is gaining popularity by an increasing number of applications in military, law enforcement, healthcare. In this chapter, the authors compare and contrast the different reversible watermarking techniques with quality and embedding capacity parameters. This survey is essential due to the rapid evolution of reversible watermarking techniques.