Journal on Communications ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (12): 153-161.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-436x.2014.12.018

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Halftone image watermarking with block-directed parity-matched error diffusion

Kun XIE1,Hai-hong ZHENG1,Ping ZENG1,2,Tao GUO1   

  1. 1 School of Computer and Science,Xidian University,Xi'an 710071,China
    2 College of Computer Science,Xi'an Shiyou University,Xi'an 710065,China
  • Online:2014-12-25 Published:2017-06-17
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National 12th Five-Year Plan of China

Abstract:

A robust halftone image watermarking method was proposed.The method was developed in parity domain based on pixel block.Especially,the parity sum of a pixel block was defined by comparing the average of the pixel block with an image-dependent threshold.By altering the pixel block's parity based on noise-balanced block error diffusion,watermark was spread into the host image.Watermark was retrieved by employing each pixel block's parity and majority voting strategy,not referring to the original image.Compared with the state-of-the-art method in parity domain,the re-sults indicate that the proposed method has high watermark rate and watermark rate flexibility.Moreover,it is capable of extracting watermark directly from the attacked watermarked image without quantizing it into a halftone image.And it can achieve high robustness against common attacks and print-and-scan attack of different types of printers and scanners.

Key words: halftone image, watermarking, parity-match, block error diffusion

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