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Colour Image Authentication and Recovery Using Wavelet Packets Watermarking

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Image watermarking has been evidenced as a powerful tool for copyright protection and authentication applications. In this work, a novel approach, for colour image content authentication and restoration, is introduced. The proposed scheme is based on utilizing the wavelet-packets decomposition to perform semi-fragile watermarking for colour image authentication and recovery. The obtained wavelet packets, from each colour layer, are used to construct the so called spatio-frequency chains that are split into four common-featured containers. These containers are treated mutually to construct the inter-colour containers; then, the robust content-dependent watermark is embedded by modifying only locations when the image content is properly secure to hold mark bits. The recovery stage is based on embedding recovery bits, using a modified quantization-based approach. Simulations have shown that the proposed scheme exhibits a high robustness performance in the presence of different moderate-to-severe incident attacks, while, it has demonstrated a high authentication performance in the presence of several malicious attacks including cropping and object manipulations with the unauthentic regions being properly recovered.

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  1. Here, the number 4 represents half of the number of pixels within the 3 × 3 window with excluding the center pixel.

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Al-Otum, H.M. Colour Image Authentication and Recovery Using Wavelet Packets Watermarking. Circuits Syst Signal Process 41, 3222–3264 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-021-01927-y

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