Abstract
Most of the watermarking techniques based on DWT technique embed watermarks into the detail (or middle frequency) coefficients of the host image for a good-trade-off between robustness and fidelity. But, in order to obtain the most robustness, the DC area (LL sub-band) may be a most suitable region for watermark embedding, as the signal energy of DC components is much bigger than that of high frequency sub-bands. A blind novel watermarking algorithm based on fast lifting wavelet transform, a kind of second generation wavelet transform, is proposed. Firstly, a multi-level discrete lifting wavelet transform is employed, and then the watermark is embedded into DC area of last level lifting wavelet transform according to amplitude modulation method with a secret key, lastly a watermarked image is obtained after lifting wavelet reconstruction to be applied. The results of experiments show that this algorithm is still effective after applying high compression ratio JPEG.
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