Block based robust blind image watermarking using discrete wavelet transform

Abstract

Digital watermarking is a process to provide authenticity by hiding a data into an image or audio or document. Hiding of data in an image can be done in frequency domain. Since frequency domain based techniques are more robust against signal processing and geometric attacks than time domain based techniques and watermark can also be extracted with(non blind) and without(blind) original cover image. In this paper we proposed a blind image watermarking technique which embeds watermark into image in frequency domain using discrete wavelet transform, singular value decomposition and torus automorphism techniques. This technique extracts watermark without cover image and also proved that this method is robust against different signal and non signal processing attacks.