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Digital Watermarking is an information hiding technique in which an identifying piece of information is embedded into a cover work so as to identify the ownership of some important information or document. It is widely used for enforcing copyright infringement protection for various types of digital data including images. In images, various watermarking techniques have been proposed over time. The watermarking techniques are often susceptible to geometric attacks such as rotation and cropping. This paper proposes an image watermarking scheme which uses the geometric properties of an image to ensure invariance of the watermark to rotation and cropping. It also incorporates a checksum based mechanism for tracking any distortion effect in the cover work. Efforts have been given to ensure that the proposed algorithm conforms to high Robustness and Fidelity which are the primary quality requirements for any Digital Watermarking system.
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Ahmed, T., Roy, R., Changder, S. (2014). Cropping and Rotation Invariant Watermarking Scheme in the Spatial Domain. In: Satapathy, S., Avadhani, P., Udgata, S., Lakshminarayana, S. (eds) ICT and Critical Infrastructure: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Convention of Computer Society of India- Vol II. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 249. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03095-1_31
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