Watermarking Scheme For Authentication Research Articles

A quantization-based semi-fragile watermarking scheme for image content authentication

This paper presents a novel semi-fragile watermarking scheme for image content authentication with tampering localization. The proposed scheme uses a non-traditional quantization method to modify one chosen approximation coefficient of each non-overlapping block to ensure its robustness against incidental attacks and fragileness against malicious attacks. The image content authentication starts with extracting watermark using the parity of quantization results from the probe image, where the round operation is used to ensure the semi-fragile property. It then constructs a binary error map and computes two authentication measures with M 1 measuring the overall similarity between extracted and embedded watermarks and M 2 measuring the overall clustering level of tampered error pixels. These two measures are further integrated to confirm the image content and localize the possible tampered areas. Our experimental results show that our scheme outperforms four peer schemes and is capable of identifying intentional tampering and incidental modification, and localizing tampered regions.

Communication-resource-aware adaptive watermarking for multimedia authentication in wireless multimedia sensor networks

Efficient multimedia and specifically image authentication is critical and in demand to protect data vulnerability in wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSN). This is to prevent malicious intruders from modifying and forging image contents over a network. Watermarking technique has been widely used to assert an image data authentication over wired networks; however, resource constraints (e.g. processing power, communication energy) in small sensors and the state of error-prone wireless channels result in fundamental challenges for developing efficient watermarking schemes in WMSN. These challenges include how to embed/protect/extract watermark efficiently and robustly in low-cost sensors and how to transmit authenticated image and multimedia with high energy efficiency. In this paper, we propose a communication-resource-aware and adaptive watermarking scheme for multimedia authentication in WMSN. Our contribution is two folds. First, the transmission quality for the watermark as well as watermarked multimedia authenticity by embedding watermark with adaptive coding redundancies, and by unequally allocating network resources to protect the image and multimedia packets with the watermark information. Second, communication energy efficiency and real time performance are achieved with the watermark being adaptive to the network condition and the processing delay reduced due to the exploited inter-frame correlation. The simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed adaptive watermarking system can achieve considerable gains in terms of energy saving, image transmission quality and multimedia authentication performance.

Semi-Fragile Zernike Moment-Based Image Watermarking for Authentication

We propose a content-based semi-fragile watermarking algorithm for image authentication. In content-based watermarking scheme for authentication, one of the most challenging issues is to define a computable feature vector that can capture the major content characteristics. We identify Zernike moments of the image to generate feature vector and demonstrate its good robustness and discriminative capability for authentication. The watermark is generated by quantizing Zernikemoments magnitudes (ZMMs) of the image and embedded into DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform) subband. It is usually hard to locate the tampered area by using global feature in the content-based watermarking scheme. We propose a structural embedding method to locate the tampered areas by using the separability of Zernike moments-based feature vector. The authentication process does not need the original feature vector. By using the semi-fragilities of the feature vector and the watermark, the proposed authentication scheme is robust to content-preserved processing, while being fragile to malicious attacks. As an application of our algorithm, we apply it on Chinese digital seals and the results show that it works well. Compared with some existing algorithms, the proposed scheme achieves better performance in discriminating high-quality JPEG compression from malicious attacks.

A Quantization based Watermarking Scheme for Image Authentication

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A Study on Watermarking Schemes for Image Authentication

The digital revolution in digital image processing has made it possible to create, manipulate and transmit digital images in a simple and fast manner. The adverse affect of this is that the same image processing techniques can be used by hackers to tamper with any image and use it illegally. This has made digital image safety and integrity the top prioritized issue in today’s information explosion. Watermarking is a popular technique that is used for copyright protection and authentication. This paper presents an overview of the various concepts and research works in the field of image watermark authentication. In particular, the concept of content-based image watermarking is reviewed in details. KeywordsWatermark Lifecycle, Robust Watermarking Schemes, Fragile Watermarking Schemes, HVS, ICA.

Reversible fragile watermarking for locating tampered blocks in JPEG images

This paper proposes a novel fragile watermarking scheme for JPEG image authentication. The watermark is generated by folding the hash results of quantized coefficients, and each block is used to carry two watermark bits using a reversible data-hiding method. Because modification to the cover is small, the visual quality of watermarked image is satisfactory. On the receiver side, one may attempt to extract the watermark and recover the original content. By measuring mismatch between the watermark data extracted from the received image and derived from the recovered content, the blocks containing fake content can be located accurately, while the original information in the other blocks is retrieved without any error as long as the tampered area is not extensive.

A novel DCT domain CRT-based watermarking scheme for image authentication surviving JPEG compression

Digital watermarking techniques have been proposed for copyright protection and authentication of multimedia data. In this paper, we propose a novel Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT)-based technique for digital watermarking in the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) domain that is robust to several common attacks. We compared the performance of the proposed technique with recently proposed Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)-based and spatial CRT-based watermarking schemes. Experimental results have shown that the proposed technique successfully makes the watermark perceptually invisible and has better robustness to common image manipulation techniques such as JPEG compression, brightening and sharpening effects compared to the spatial domain-based CRT scheme. The proposed scheme is able to achieve a Tamper Assessment Function (TAF) value of less than 10% when the watermarked image undergoes JPEG compression between a range of 50 to 70%, where as, the spatial CRT-based scheme produce TAF value of more than 35% and the SVD-based scheme produces TAF value between 10 to 40% depending on the host image, for the same range of compression. When the watermark capacity is doubled, the proposed technique is still able to maintain imperceptibility and low TAF values, for most of the attacks.

A Fragile Watermarking Scheme for Image Authentication with Tamper Localization Using Integer Wavelet Transform

Problem statement: In recent years, as digital media are gaining wider popularity, their security related issues are becoming greater concern. Method for authenticating and assuring the integrity of the image is required. Image authentication is possible by embedding a layer of the authentication signature into the digital image using a digital watermark. In some applications tamper localization is also required. Approach: In this study, we proposed a fragile image authentication system with tamper localization in wavelet domain. In this scheme, secret data to be embedded is a logo. Watermark was generated by repeating logo image so that size of watermark matches with the size of HH sub-band of integer wavelet transform. To provide additional level of security, the generated watermark was scrambled using a shared secret key. Integer Haar wavelet transform was applied to obtain wavelet coefficients. Watermark was embedded into the coefficients using odd-even mapping. Results: Experimental results demonstrated that proposed scheme detected and localized tampering at pixel level. Proposed scheme was tested with images of various sizes and tampering of various sizes. It provided good results for tamperings ranges from single pixel to a block of pixels. Conclusion: Watermarking was done in wavelet domain; conventional watermarking attacks were not possible. The resolution of tamper localization was achieved at pixel level. The watermarked image's quality was still maintained while providing pixel-level tampering accuracy. Proposed scheme can be used in insurance, forensics departments.

Medical Images Authentication through Repetitive Index Modulation Based Watermarking

In this work we propose a Repetitive Index Modulation (RIM) based digital watermarking scheme for authentication and integrity verification of medical images. Exploiting the fact that many types of medical images have significant background areas and medically meaningful Regions Of Interest (ROI), which represent the actual contents of the images, the scheme uses the contents of the ROI to create a content-dependent watermark and embeds the watermark in the background areas. Therefore when any pixel of the ROI is attacked, the watermark embedded in the background areas will be different from the watermark calculated according to the attacked contents, thus raising alarm that the image in question is inauthentic. Because the creation of the watermark is content-dependent and the watermark is only embedded in the background areas, the proposed scheme can actually protect the content/ROI without distorting it.

Recover the tampered image based on VQ indexing

In this paper, a tampered image recovery scheme is proposed by creating an index table of the original image via vector quantization (VQ) and embedding it into the original image as a basis for recovery. In order to complete the goal of image authentication and recovery, Wong's watermarking scheme [P.W. Wong, N. Memon, Secret an public key image watermarking schemes for image authentication and ownership verification, IEEE Trans. Image Process 10 (10) (2001) 1593–1601] is employed to perform tamper detection. Wong's watermarking scheme can be used to accurately locate tampered regions. If an image has been tampered, the index table can be used to recover the tampered regions. The experimental results indicate that our scheme has the higher probability of image recovery. Besides, compared with Lee and Lin's [Dual watermark for image tamper detection and recovery, Pattern Recognition 41 (2008) 3497–3506] scheme, our scheme provides not only a better quality of recovered images but also better results at edge regions.

Novel reversible watermarking scheme for authentication of military images

This paper presents a novel reversible watermarking scheme based on histogram modification for the authentication of military images. The Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC) of the image is computed and embedded into the image for authentication. Based on a criterion, the distinct pixel values with Non-Zero Frequencies of the histogram are selected for embedding watermark bits and the preferred pixel values are stored as a key. This key is used for both the watermark extraction and the original image restoration. The bits of extracted HMAC from the marked image and HMAC of the restored image are compared for authentication.

A self-recovery fragile watermarking scheme for image authentication with superior localization

To address the problems of the inferior localization and high probability of false rejection in existing self-recovery fragile watermarking algorithms, this paper proposes a new self-recovery fragile watermarking scheme with superior localization, and further discusses the probability of false rejection (PFR) and the probability of false acceptance (PFA) of the proposed scheme. Moreover, four measurements are defined to evaluate the quality of a recovered image. In the proposed algorithm, the original image is divided into 2×2 blocks to improve localization precision and decrease PFR under occurrence of random tampering. The PFR under occurrence of region tampering can be effectively decreased by randomly embedding the water-mark of each block in conjunction with a novel method of tamper detection. Compared with the current self-recovery fragile watermarking algorithms, the proposed scheme not only resolves the tamper detection problem of self-embedding water-marking, but also improves the robustness against the random tampering of self-embedding watermarking. In addition, the subjective measurements are provided to evaluate the performance of the self-recovery watermarking schemes for image authentication.

A fuzzy c-means clustering-based fragile watermarking scheme for image authentication

In recent years, various fragile watermarking schemes have been proposed for image authentication and integrity verification. In this paper, a novel block-based fragile watermarking scheme for image authentication and tamper proofing is proposed. Realizing that block-wise dependency is a basic requirement for fragile watermarking schemes to withstand counterfeiting attacks, the proposed scheme uses the fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering technique to create the relationship between image blocks. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated through a series of attack simulations. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme not only provides satisfactory imperceptibility, but also achieves superior tamper detection and localization accuracy under different attacks, such as the cut-and-paste attack and the vector quantization (VQ) attack.

A digital authentication watermarking scheme for JPEG images with superior localization and security

The drawbacks of the current authentication watermarking schemes for JPEG images, which are inferior localization and the security flaws, are firstly analyzed in this paper. Then, two counterferiting attacks are conducted on them. To overcome these drawbacks, a new digital authentication watermarking scheme for JPEG images with superior localization and security is proposed. Moreover, the probabilities of tamper detection and false detection are deduced under region tampering and collage attack separately. For each image block, the proposed scheme keeps four middle frequency points fixed to embed the watermark, and utilizes the rest of the DCT coefficients to generate 4 bits of watermark information. During the embedding process, each watermark bit is embedded in another image block that is selected by its corresponding secret key. Since four blocks are randomly selected for the watermark embedding of each block, the non-deterministic dependence among the image blocks is established so as to resist collage attack completely. At the receiver, according to judging of the extracted 4 bits of watermark information and the corresponding 9-neighbourhood system, the proposed scheme could discriminate whether the image block is tampered or not. Owing to the diminishing of false detection and the holding of tamper detection, we improve the accuracy of localization in the authentication process. Theoretic analysis and simulation results have proved that the proposed algorithm not only has superior localization, but also enhances the systematic security obviously.

A Semi-Fragile Watermarking Scheme Using Weighted Vote with Sieve and Emphasis for Image Authentication

This paper describes a semi-fragile watermarking scheme for image authentication and tamper-proofing. Each watermark bit is duplicated and randomly embedded in the original image in the discrete wavelet domain by modifying the corresponding image coefficients through quantization. The modifications are made so that they have little effect on the image and that the watermarking is robust against tampering. The watermark image for authentication is reconstructed by taking a weighted vote on the extracted bits. The bits that lose the vote are treated as having been tampered with, and the locations of the lost bits as indicating tampered positions. Thus, authentication and tamper-proofing can be done by observing the images of watermarks that win and lose votes. Sieving, emphasis, and weighted vote were found to be effectively make the authentication and tamper detection more accurate. The proposed scheme is robust against JPEG compression or acceptable modifications, but sensitive to malicious attacks such as cutting and pasting.

Digital watermarking scheme exploiting nondeterministic dependence for image authentication

Watermarking schemes for authentication purposes are characterized by three factors: security, resolution of tamper localization, and embedding distortion. Since the requirements of high security, high localization resolution, and low distortion cannot be fulfilled simultaneously, the relative importance of a particular factor is application-dependent. Moreover, blockwise dependence is recognized as a key requirement for fragile watermarking schemes to thwart the Holliman-Memon counterfeiting attack. However, it has also been observed that deterministic dependence is still susceptible to transplantation attack or even simple cover-up attack. This work proposes a fragile watermarking scheme for image authentication, which exploits nondeterministic dependence and provides the users with freedom of making trade-offs among the three factors according to the needs of their applications.

Secure authentication watermarking for localization against the Holliman–Memon attack

Authentication watermarking schemes using block-wise watermarks for tamper localization are vulnerable to the Holliman---Memon attack. In this paper, we propose a novel method based on the Wong's localization scheme (Proceedings of the IS&T PIC, Portland) to resist this attack. A unique image index scheme is used for computing the authentication signature that is embedded in the least significant bit-plane of the block. The informed detector estimates the correct image index by using the side information about the watermarked image. The image index estimation from the fake image can definitely be an alternative to keeping a directory of image indices. So it is not necessary to manage the database of image indices for the verification purpose. The authenticity measure is defined to quantify the attack severity by taking the connectivity among possible authentic blocks into consideration. There are more blocks verified as authentic when this measure is high for a fake image constructed using this attack. As such, the blocks for a fake image can be chosen from a reduced number of database images. The blocks from any such image are to be connected with each other to maximize the authenticity measure. Thus, the attacker's task to generate a fake image of reasonable perceptual quality becomes increasingly difficult. With the proposed method there is no loss or ambiguity in localization after the Holliman---Memon attack and content tampering in an image. The localization accuracy in the proposed method is demonstrated by the simulation results and is equal to the chosen block size, similar to the Wong's scheme.

Multiscale Fragile Watermarking Based on the Gaussian Mixture Model

In this paper, a new multiscale fragile watermarking scheme based on the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) is presented. First, a GMM is developed to describe the statistical characteristics of images in the wavelet domain and an expectation-maximization algorithm is employed to identify GMM model parameters. With wavelet multiscale subspaces being divided into watermarking blocks, the GMM model parameters of different watermarking blocks are adjusted to form certain relationships, which are employed for the presented new fragile watermarking scheme for authentication. An optimal watermark embedding method is developed to achieve minimum watermarking distortion. A secret embedding key is designed to securely embed the fragile watermarks so that the new method is robust to counterfeiting, even when the malicious attackers are fully aware of the watermark embedding algorithm. It is shown that the presented new method can securely embed a message bit stream, such as personal signatures or copyright logos, into a host image as fragile watermarks. Compared with conventional fragile watermark techniques, this new statistical model based method modifies only a small amount of image data such that the distortion on the host image is imperceptible. Meanwhile, with the embedded message bits spreading over the entire image area through the statistical model, the new method can detect and localize image tampering. Besides, the new multiscale implementation of fragile watermarks based on the presented method can help distinguish some normal image operations such as JPEG compression from malicious image attacks and, thus, can be used for semi-fragile watermarking.

Color image authentication based on spatiotemporal chaos and SVD

In this paper, a new semi-fragile watermarking scheme for color image authentication is proposed based on spatiotemporal chaos and SVD (singular value decomposition). Wavelet transform is applied to watermarking. In contrast to conventional approaches where the watermark is embedded directly on the wavelet coefficients, we embed the watermark onto the SVs (singular values) of the blocks within wavelet subband. In order to enhance the security, spatiotemporal chaos is employed to select the embedding positions for each watermark bit as well as for watermark encryption. The experiment results show that the proposed scheme is able to identify malicious attacks to the image, while is robust to JPEG compression. And due to the sensitivity to the initial conditions of the spatiotemporal chaos, the security of the scheme is greatly improved.

A public fragile watermarking scheme for 3D model authentication

A public fragile watermarking scheme based on the sensitivity of vertex geometry is proposed for 3D model authentication. In the 3D fragile watermarking embedding, slightly perturbing the positions of a subset of vertices is usually needed to keep them in some predefined relationship with their neighboring vertices. Two problems frequently arise in the embedding stage: the causality problem and the convergence problem. The causality problem arises while the neighboring relationship of a former processed vertex is influenced by the perturbing of its latter processed neighboring vertices. The convergence problem means that the original model has been heavily distorted before some vertices reach the predefined relationship. In this paper, we propose a multi-function vertex embedding method and an adjusting-vertex method to overcome these two problems. The proposed method does not need the original model and watermarks for authentication; moreover, the key for extracting watermarks is relatively smaller than that of previous works. For some artistic or technical models, sometimes it is very important to control the distortion ratio caused by watermark embedding. Our method can control the average distortion by the keys used in watermark embedding. Experimental and analytic results on various kinds of 3D models show the effectiveness of the scheme.