A Wavelet Based Watermarking Approach in Concatenated Square Block Image for High Security

Abstract

Watermarking in digital contents has gained the more attraction in research community. In this approach copyright information is concealed in to the concatenated square region of an image under wavelet domain, initially original image is undergoing an alternative pixel sharing approach and one of the shares undergo the circular column shift further, concatenates those shares. Next, square region is obtained by capturing the half of the row value in the last part of first share and the first part of second share which forms a square image. To enrich the robustness of the technique, watermarking is under consideration only in the folded square under wavelet. Further, the reverse process is carried out to generate the watermarked image. To show ownership, original and watermarked image have undergone the same operation and acquire the copyright information. Experimental results indicate that the proposed approach is robust against image processing attacks.