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Quantum watermarking is a technique which embeds the invisible quantum signal such as the owners identification into quantum multimedia data (such as audio, video and image) for copyright protection. In this paper, using a quantum representation of digital images a new quantum watermarking protocol including quantum image scrambling based on Least Significant Bit (LSB) is proposed. In this protocol, by using m-bit embedding key K 1 and m-bit extracting key K 2 a m-pixel gray scale image is watermarked in a m-pixel carrier image by the original owner of the carrier image. For validation of the presented scheme the peak-signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and histogram graphs of the images are analyzed.
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This work is supported by Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, IRAN. Also the authors would like to thank Alimorad Ahmadi for his helpful comments and the final edition of the paper and Soheila Gholipour, Yasna Naseri and Viana Naseri for their interests in this work.
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Heidari, S., Naseri, M. A Novel LSB Based Quantum Watermarking. Int J Theor Phys 55, 4205–4218 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-016-3046-3
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