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Digital Watermarking Based on Joint DWT–DCT and OMP Reconstruction

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With the rapid development of communication technology and multimedia technology, digital watermark has played an important role in the protection of various forms of digital media works. In this paper, digital watermarking algorithms of wavelet domain are studied. Firstly, we apply discrete wavelet transform with different levels on the host images and combine them with corresponding discrete cosine transform. Next, we introduce the spread transform quantization index modulation algorithm to implement the watermark embedding. Then, we propose orthogonal matching pursuit compression reconstruction algorithm for the watermarking algorithm to optimize the watermark extraction through denoising-attacked watermarked images. We conduct several experiments and compare performance of different algorithms using statistical parameters such as peak signal-to-noise ratio and bit error rate. The experiments and comparisons prove the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.

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    Yifeng Zhang, Yingying Li & Yibo Sun

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    Yifeng Zhang

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This work was supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant BK20151102, in part by the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Machine Perception, Peking University under Grant K-2016-03, in part by the Open Project Program of the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing, Southeast University under Grant UASP1502, and in part by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61673108.

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Zhang, Y., Li, Y. & Sun, Y. Digital Watermarking Based on Joint DWT–DCT and OMP Reconstruction. Circuits Syst Signal Process 38, 5135–5148 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-019-01112-2

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