A dual color images watermarking scheme based on the optimized compensation of singular value decomposition

This paper proposes a novel watermarking algorithm based on the improved compensation of SVD for embedding the color image watermark into the color host image. Firstly, the watermark bit is embedded into 4 x 4 block by modifying the second row, first column and the third row first column elements of U component after SVD. Then, the embedded block is compensated by the improved optimization operation for obtaining higher PSNR and larger threshold T. The embedded watermark is extracted from various attacked images by using the relation between the modified elements of U component without resorting to the original data. Moreover, the proposed algorithm overcomes the problem of false positive detection. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm not only guarantees the invisibility and robustness of the watermark, but also has better performance than other methods mentioned in this paper. (C) 2013 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.