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A new approach for colored watermarking image into gray scale image using wavelet fusion

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With the quick growth of technologies and great spread of the Internet, many challenges face data hiding. Nevertheless, significant data may be protected by burring it in an image as a watermark. This paper shows an efficient data hiding watermarking approach for color image by using singular value decomposition (SVD), multi-level discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and wavelet fusion. The main idea in this work is to separate the color image into its basic components (three channels); red, green, and blue. Then, fuse every channel with an image which is gray scale and integrate the three fused images into one gray scale fused image. Finally, the fused image is burred into a cover gray scale image to produce the watermarked image by using DWT and SVD. The proposed approach evaluation is done by using several images and different hacking on the transmitted image. The experimental results show that the marked images which are generated by the proposed approach are tolerant to versatile attacks such as Gaussian, blur, wrap, and cropping. Above all, the extracted watermark images are recognized even when the watermarked images suffered from attacks.

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    Alaa Fkirin, Gamal Attiya & Ayman El-Sayed

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Fkirin, A., Attiya, G. & El-Sayed, A. A new approach for colored watermarking image into gray scale image using wavelet fusion. Opt Quant Electron 49, 284 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-017-1120-6

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