Journal
MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
Volume 76, Issue 6, Pages 8497-8516Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-016-3452-9
Keywords
Reversible watermark; Visible watermark; Difference expansion; Partition strategy
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- National Science Council of the Republic of China [MOST 104-2221-E-364-002]
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A reversible image watermarking scheme recovers the original cover image after extracting the embedded watermarks. A visible image watermarking scheme embeds watermarks to create a visible watermark effect on the cover image. A general reversible image watermarking scheme embeds invisible watermarks. This paper presents a reversible and visible image watermarking scheme that uses a conventional difference-expansion method. The cover image is first segmented to non-overlapped kxk blocks. Each block is then applied to two watermarking schemes; a difference-expansion based invisible watermarking scheme and a visible watermarking scheme to embed one watermark bit. Exceeding numbers, larger than 255 or smaller than 0, generated from the difference-expansion method require being recorded for a lossless recovery. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme embeds visible watermarks with few recorded exceeding numbers. However, not recording any exceeding numbers still results in a high similarity of extracted watermark image and good quality of recovered cover image.
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