Discrete wavelet transform-based color image watermarking using uncorrelated color space and artificial bee colony

DOI

10.1080/18756891.2015.1001958How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Image watermarking, Discrete wavelet transform, Uncorrelated color space, Artificial bee colony

Abstract

The exponential growth in electronic data over internet have increased the demand of a robust and high quality watermarking method for authentication and copyright protection. In general, the existing digital image watermarking methods embed the binary or gray scale watermark into the host image although most multimedia images are available in color. Moreover, available digital image watermarking methods generally use the correlated color spaces which impose the limitations to researchers for using only one color component at a time for embedding the watermark. Therefore, in this paper, a novel discrete wavelet transform (DWT) based color image watermarking method has been proposed which embeds the color watermark into host image using uncorrelated color space (UCS) and artificial bee colony (ABC) method. The results show that proposed method outperforms other existing methods against the various signal processing attacks.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Manish Gupta
AU  - Girish Parmar
AU  - Rajeev Gupta
AU  - Mukesh Saraswat
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015/04/01
TI  - Discrete wavelet transform-based color image watermarking using uncorrelated color space and artificial bee colony
JO  - International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
SP  - 364
EP  - 380
VL  - 8
IS  - 2
SN  - 1875-6883
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/18756891.2015.1001958
DO  - 10.1080/18756891.2015.1001958
ID  - Gupta2015
ER  -