An improved SVD-based watermarking scheme using human visual characteristics

With the widespread use of the Internet digital media can be readily manipulated reproduced and distributed over information networks Therefore illegal reproduction of digital information started to pose a real problem Digital watermarking has been regarded as an effective solution to protect the copyright of digital media In this paper an improved SVD-based watermarking technique considering human visual characteristics is presented Experimental results are provided to demonstrate the proposed approach is able to withstand a variety of image processing attacks (C) 2010 Elsevier BV All rights reserved