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Image authentication based on digital signature and semi-fragile watermarking

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This paper proposes an authentication scheme for JPEG images based on digital signature and semi-fragile watermarking. It can detect and locate malicious manipulations made to the image, and verify the owenership of the image at the same time. The algorithm uses the invariance of the order relationship between two DCT coefficients before and after JPEG compression to embed image content depedent watermark, therefore the watermark can survive the JPEG lossy compression. Since the scheme is based on the security of the cryptographic hash function and public key algorithm, it is believed to be secure to the extent that cryptography is believed to be. Theoretical analysis and experimental results show that the proposed scheme has the desired property and good performance for image authentication.

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    Hong-Bin Zhang, Cheng Yang & Xiao-Mei Quan

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.60075002, the National High Technology Development 863 Program of China under Grant No.2003AA144080.

Hong-Bin Zhang received the B.S. degree in automation in 1968, and the M.S. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent system in 1981, both from Tsinghua University, China. From 1986 to 1989 he was an invited researcher in Department of Information Science of Kyoto University, Japan. From 1993 to 1994 he was a visiting scholar of RPI, USA. He is now a professor of the Computer Institute of Beijing Polytechnic University, China. His current research interests include pattern recognition and computer vision, data hiding and digital watermarking, and 3D data compression.

Cheng Yang received the M.S. degree in pattern recognition and computer vision from Beijing University of Technology in 2002. His current research interests include pattern recognition and computer applications.

Xiao-Mei Quan is a Ph.D. candidate of Beijing University of Technology. Her current research interests include pattern recognition and data hiding.

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Zhang, HB., Yang, C. & Quan, XM. Image authentication based on digital signature and semi-fragile watermarking. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 19, 752–759 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02973435

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