A new digital image watermarking scheme based on Schur decomposition

In this paper, we present a new digital watermarking scheme for ownership protection. The algorithm embeds the watermark in the Schur decomposition components of the cover image. We also show that this algorithm is noninvertible. Comparisons with other algorithms indicate that the proposed algorithm is robust against most common attacks including geometrical distortions and jpeg compression attacks. Simulations show that the performance of this algorithm outperforms the closely related singular value decomposition based algorithms. More specifically, the proposed algorithm is more robust and requires less number of computations. In addition, our algorithm does not suffer the false positive detection problem inherent in SVD based algorithms.