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In this paper, a robust watermarking algorithm in DWT domain against geometric distortion is proposed. We introduce a distance measure between the distorted and undistorted images/video in order to determine the distortion. We can then inverse the geometric distortion to regain synchronization. An efficient algorithm searching for the synchronization parameters has been developed. Using multi-resolution coarse-fine searching to prune the searching space, the computation of algorithm is reduced drastically. The BCH code and 2-D interleaving are exploited to lower detection error probability. Our watermarking algorithm can successfully resist geometrical distortion, including rotation, scaling, translation, shearing, cropping, jitter attack and linear transformations.
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Kang, X., Huang, J., Shi, Y.Q. (2003). An Image Watermarking Algorithm Robust to Geometric Distortion. In: Kim, H.J. (eds) Digital Watermarking. IWDW 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2613. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36617-2_18
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