• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 58, Issue 6, 615006 (2021)
Liu Ying1、2, Yang Xing1、*, and Zhu Tingge1、2
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Communication and Information Engineering, Xi''an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi''an, Shaanxi 710121, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Application Technology for Scene Investigation, Ministry of Public Security, Xi''an, Shaanxi 710121, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/LOP202158.0615006 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Liu Ying, Yang Xing, Zhu Tingge. Robust Watermarking Algorithm Based on Structured Forests Edge and SIFT[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2021, 58(6): 615006 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    To balance the vision imperceptibility and robustness of a watermark and address copyright protection and content authentication issues in digital multimedia products, this study proposes a robust watermarking algorithm that is based on structured forests edge and the scale invariant feature transform (SIFT). First, a color image is converted from an RGB space to a Lab space, and the 1024 stable SIFT points are extracted based on an L component as the embedding position of watermark. Second, the image edge is extracted using a trained random decision forest model as the watermark image that is decomposed by the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) to obtain a low-frequency sub-band that is divided into nonoverlapping blocks. The maximum values of the blocks are obtained and encrypted using the Arnold transform. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm exhibits better imperceptibility and robustness to resist various attacks, such as cropping, speckle noise, and motion blur, in comparison with other related algorithms. Furthermore, it effectively protects the original edge features of an image.
    Liu Ying, Yang Xing, Zhu Tingge. Robust Watermarking Algorithm Based on Structured Forests Edge and SIFT[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2021, 58(6): 615006
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