Robust Digital Watermarking on Vital Archives using Hybrid SVD and DWT Methods

Abstract

The development of Internet technology affects the dissemination of data, especially in vital government archives. This research uses a hybrid singular value decomposition (SVD) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT) method, which aims to protect the copyright of vital archives. The stages of the insertion and extraction process are carried out to test the effect of the alpha value on the quality (imperceptibility) and robustness of the inserted image by measuring the Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), verifying similarity by measuring the Normalized Cross-Correlation (NC) and Structural Similarity Index (SSIM). The results of research with ten vital archives and a watermark protection logo in JPEG format with a size of 512x512 pixels obtained a maximum PSNR with a value of α = 0.01 of 41.0567 dB, NC of 0.98904, and SSIM of 0.98023 in the Cibereum Land Certificate. So, it can be proven that this method produces vital archive watermarks that can be extracted and are robust to JPEG compression attacks of 75%, median filtering 3x3, Gaussian noise 0.01, speckle noise 0.01, and salt and pepper noise 0.01 but not resistant to rotation 80 and cropping attacks 2%.