Adaptive Watermarking Algorithm in DCT Domain Based on Chaos

Abstract

In order to improve the security, robustness and invisibility of the digital watermarking, a new adaptive watermarking algorithm is proposed in this paper. Firstly, this algorithm uses chaos sequence, which Logistic chaotic mapping produces, to encrypt the watermark image. And then the original image is divided into many sub-blocks and discrete cosine transform (DCT).The watermark information is embedded into sub-blocks medium coefficients. With the features of Human Visual System (HVS) and image texture sufficiently taken into account during embedding, the embedding intensity of watermark is able to adaptively adjust according to HVS and texture characteristic. The watermarking is embedded into the different sub-blocks coefficients. Experiment results haven shown that the proposed algorithm is robust against the attacks of general image processing methods, such as noise, cut, filtering and JPEG compression, and receives a good tradeoff between invisible and robustness, and better security.

Keywords

• Watermarking
• Chaotic encryption and decryption
• DCT
• Human visual system
• Texture
• Attack test