Reversible Digital Image Watermarking Scheme Using Bit Replacement and Majority Algorithm Technique

Koushik Pal, Goutam Ghosh, Mahua Bhattacharya

Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India.
Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

DOI: 10.4236/jilsa.2012.43020                

Abstract

The current paper presents a new digital watermarking method through bit replacement technology, which stores mul-tiple copies of the same data that is to be hidden in a scrambled form in the cover image. In this paper an indigenous approach is described for recovering the data from the damaged copies of the data under attack by applying a majority algorithm to find the closest twin of the embedded information. A new type of non-oblivious detection method is also proposed. The improvement in performance is supported through experimental results which show much enhancement in the visual and statistical invisibility of hidden data.

Keywords

Additive Noise; Salt and Pepper Noise; Compression; Filtering; Averaging; Multiple Watermarking; Majority Algorithm

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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