IEEE Trans Image Process
April 2014
This paper studies the impact of secure watermark embedding in digital images by proposing a practical implementation of secure spread-spectrum watermarking using distortion optimization. Because strong security properties (key-security and subspace-security) can be achieved using natural watermarking (NW) since this particular embedding lets the distribution of the host and watermarked signals unchanged, we use elements of transportation theory to minimize the global distortion. Next, we apply this new modulation, called transportation NW (TNW), to design a secure watermarking scheme for grayscale images.
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