Fragile Watermarking of 3D Models in a Transformed Domain

Abstract

This paper presents an algorithm aimed at the integrity protection of 3D models represented as a set of vertices and polygons. The proposed method defines a procedure to perform a fragile watermarking of the vertices’ data, namely 3D coordinates and polygons, introducing a very small error in the vertices’ coordinates. The watermark bit string is embedded into a secret vector space defined by the Karhunen–Loève transform derived from a key image. Experimental results show the good performance of the method and its security.

Keywords

• 3D model
• integrity protection
• fragile watermarking
• data hiding
• genetic algorithm
• Karhunen–Loève transform