A Robust Color Image Watermarking Scheme Based on Discrete Wavelet Transform Domain and Discrete Slantlet Transform Technique

Abstract

Watermarking is primarily used to prevent unauthorized copying of digital data by inserting a watermark as a symbol of ownership in the digital data. The purpose of this work is to increase the imperceptibility and robustness of watermarked image by utilizing the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) domain and Discrete Slantlet Transform (DST) technique. In compared to existing methodologies, the strategies used in this work considerably increased the robustness, imperceptibility, and protection of the watermarked image against JPEG compression and other types of noise attacks. The proposed method's robustness was determined by comparing the image's Normalized Cross-Correlation (NCC) value before and after the watermarking operation. The proposed method increased the NCC value to greater than 0.7 and the Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) value to greater than 59 decibels (dB). Additionally, the proposed approach does not require knowledge of the original image in order to extract the watermarks.