Chaotic digital image watermarking scheme based on DWT and SVD

Abstract

In this study chaos based digital watermarking scheme together with Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is proposed. In the proposed watermarking scheme, the cover image is decomposed to its sub-bands (LL, LH, HL and HH) by a common used frequency domain transform: DWT. Then, the SVD is directly applied to the all sub-bands of the decomposed cover image. The watermark is shuffled with Arnold's Cat Map (ACM) to generate a chaotic watermark. By this way, the robustness and perceptual invisibility of the scheme is improved. In order to evaluate the robustness of the proposed scheme, several image processing and geometric attacks are applied to the scheme. The Normalized correlation (NC) and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) measures are used to show the performance of the proposed method in terms of robustness and perceptual invisibility. The proposed algorithm gives the promising results and meets the security requirements.