Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present multiobjective evolutionary optimizer (MEO) based highly secured and strongly robust image watermarking technique using discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and singular value decomposition (SVD). Many researchers have failed to achieve optimization of perceptual quality and robustness with high capacity watermark embedding. Here, we achieved optimized peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and normalized correlation (NC) using MEO. Strong security is implemented through eight different security levels including watermark scrambling by Fibonacci-Lucas transformation (FLT). Haar wavelet is selected for DWT decomposition to compare practical performance of wavelets from different wavelet families. The technique is non-blind and tested with cover images of size 512x512 and grey scale watermark of size 256x256. The achieved perceptual quality in terms of PSNR is 79.8611dBs for Lena, 87.8446 dBs for peppers and 93.2853 dBs for lake images by varying scale factor K1 from 1 to 5. All candidate images used for testing namely Lena, peppers and lake images show exact recovery of watermark giving NC equals to 1. The robustness is tested against variety of attacks on watermarked image. The experimental demonstration proved that proposed method gives NC more than 0.96 for majority of attacks under consideration. The performance evaluation of this technique is found superior to all existing hybrid image watermarking techniques under consideration.
Highlights
We are living in era of information technology with internet and mobile phones where billions of bits of multimedia data including images, audios, videos, digital libraries, online transactions are created, copied and transmitted in every fraction of second
Implementation of with multiobjective evolutionary optimizer (MEO) based algorithm The MEO based watermark embedding algorithm and MEO based watermark extraction algorithm are used in Trial(K1) function, where K1 is scale factor passed to the function using multiobjective evolutionary tool in Matlab
The best values of peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and normalized correlation (NC) are noted for given scale factor K1 for individual cases from Pareto front graph obtained in optimization tool
Summary
We are living in era of information technology with internet and mobile phones where billions of bits of multimedia data including images, audios, videos, digital libraries, online transactions are created, copied and transmitted in every fraction of second. The watermarking based security for telemedicine is provided in methods (Kamran & Farooq 2012; Bouslimi et al 2012; Coatrieux et al 2009). The DWT based watermarking methods are presented in (Wang et al 2002; Abu-Errub & Al-Haj 2008; C-q et al 2007; Aslantas et al 2008; Senthil & Bhaskaran 2008). Image scrambling is used for secured watermark embedding. Other watermark scrambling based methods are presented in (Zou et al 2005). The most of researchers have been failed to develop effective watermarking techniques to fulfill four quality parameters simultaneously namely robustness, imperceptibility, high capacity watermark embedding and security. The novelty of proposed MEO based technique is to optimize imperceptibility and robustness in DWTSVD domain under high payload scenario with strong security provision
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