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Color image watermarking scheme based on quaternion Hadamard transform and Schur decomposition

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Based on quaternion Hadamard transform (QHT) and Schur decomposition, a novel color image watermarking scheme is presented. To consider the correlation between different color channels and the significant color information, a new color image processing tool termed as the quaternion Hadamard transform is proposed. Then an efficient method is designed to calculate the QHT of a color image which is represented by quaternion algebra, and the QHT is analyzed for color image watermarking subsequently. With QHT, the host color image is processed in a holistic manner. By use of Schur decomposition, the watermark is embedded into the host color image by modifying the Q matrix. To make the watermarking scheme resistant to geometric attacks, a geometric distortion detection method based upon quaternion Zernike moment is introduced. Thus, all the watermark embedding, the watermark extraction and the geometric distortion parameter estimation employ the color image holistically in the proposed watermarking scheme. By using the detection method, the watermark can be extracted from the geometric distorted color images. Experimental results show that the proposed color image watermarking is not only invisible but also robust against a wide variety of attacks, especially for color attacks and geometric distortions.

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Acknowledgements

This work is partly supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. 2014A030310038), the Educational Commission of Guangdong Province (No. 2013KJCX0127, No. 2015KTSCX089) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 20720160016).

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  1. College of mathematics and statistics, Hanshan Normal University, Chaozhou, China

    Jianzhong Li

  2. School of physics and electronic engineering, Hanshan Normal University, Chaozhou, China

    Chuying Yu

  3. National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra, India

    B. B. Gupta

  4. Department of physics and mechanical & electrical engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

    Xuechang Ren

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Li, J., Yu, C., Gupta, B.B. et al. Color image watermarking scheme based on quaternion Hadamard transform and Schur decomposition. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 4545–4561 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4452-0

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