Wavelet Packet and Hybrid Filter Based Digital Watermarking

Abstract

In this paper, a new watermark algorithm that based on wavelet packet transform and hybrid filter is proposed for watermark of digital images, which include many high frequency components. The proposed watermark algorithm is used in the high frequency component of image and applies watermark to the overall subband that include the lowest frequency band. And the watermark is embedded on input image and hybrid filtering concept has been adopted to remove the noise that was added to the original image in watermark embedding stage. The quality of the watermarked image has been analyzed with PSNR. From the simulation results, the proposed algorithm shows better invisibility and robustness performance compare with conventional watermark methods. Especially, it demonstrates better robustness for high image compression in the remote sensing images application.