Affiliation:
1. Islamic Azad University
Abstract
The recent progress in the digital multimedia technologies has offered many facilities in the transmission, reproduction and manipulation of data. However, this advance has also brought the problem such as copyright protection for content providers. Digital watermarking is one of the proposed solutions for copyright protection of multimedia. This paper proposes a blind watermarking algorithm based on fractal model in discrete wavelet domain for copyright protection. The idea of the presented scheme is to hide a binary image as a watermark with fractal parameters in wavelet domain of host image. Fractal compression technique is used to encode a gray image and fractal codes are embedded into the wavelet coefficients of the gray image according to well-connected watermark algorithm. The experimental results show that the algorithm is robust against geometric and non geometric attacks.
Publisher
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
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