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New Quantization Technique in Semi-fragile Digital Watermarking for Image Authentication

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Information Systems, Technology and Management (ICISTM 2009)

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The Internet has been widely used for the distribution, commercialization and transmission of digital files such as images, audio and video. The growth of network multimedia systems has magnified the need for image copyright protection. In this paper we proposed new method for semi-fragile digital watermarking scheme for image authentication. The watermark is embedded in the discrete wavelet domain of the image by quantizing the corresponding wavelet coefficients. Using the proposed method the image distortion is decreased compared to the other techniques and the quantization parameter is a small value. It also robust against attacks including EZW compression, JPEG compression and JPEG 2000 compression algorithms.

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    Raghu Gantasala & Munaga V. N. K. Prasad

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Gantasala, R., Prasad, M.V.N.K. (2009). New Quantization Technique in Semi-fragile Digital Watermarking for Image Authentication. In: Prasad, S.K., Routray, S., Khurana, R., Sahni, S. (eds) Information Systems, Technology and Management. ICISTM 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00405-6_27

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