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Screen-shooting watermarking algorithm based on Harris-SIFT feature regions

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In recent years, there has been an increasing concern regarding the security and copyright issues associated with images. Unscrupulous individuals exploit electronic images through theft and manipulation, subsequently disseminating them widely, thereby posing significant threats to image copyright ownership and reliability. To address potential screen-shooting attacks on images, this paper proposes a robust watermarking algorithm based on entropy-weighted Harris corner detection and adaptive embedding radius. Firstly, this algorithm uses entropy as the weighted coefficient of Harris corner response values to extract feature points with rich texture features and high robustness. Then, the SIFT algorithm is used to assign orientations to feature points and construct and filter out non-overlapping feature regions. Next, the embedding radius of the watermark is adaptively selected based on the average gray value of the image feature region, and the watermark is embedded into the DFT coefficients of the image feature region. Finally, after completing the watermark embedding in all feature regions, the watermarked image is obtained. In the watermark extraction stage, the captured image is first geometrically distorted and then processed with a Gaussian function before extracting the watermark information from the image. Experimental results show that this algorithm has strong robustness against screen-shooting attacks and common image attacks, while maintaining high transparency.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61802111, 61872125), the Science and Technology Project of Henan Province (Grant Nos. 232102210109, 212102210094), and Pre-research Project of SongShan Laboratory (No. YYJC012022011).

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  1. School of Software, Intelligent Data Processing Engineering Research Center of Henan Province, Institute of Intelligent Network System, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China

    Zhihua Gan, Xiaolong Zheng & Yalin Song

  2. School of Artificial Intelligence, Henan Engineering Research Center for Industrial Internet of Things, Henan University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China

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ZG Software, Visualization, Data duration, Funding acquisition. XZ Conceptualization, Writing-reviewing and Editing. YS Methodology, Writing-original draft preparation, Writing-reviewing and Editing, Supervision. XC Investigation, Visualization, Validation. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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Gan, Z., Zheng, X., Song, Y. et al. Screen-shooting watermarking algorithm based on Harris-SIFT feature regions. SIViP (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-024-03102-7

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