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Blind Digital Image Watermarking for Copyright Protection Based on Hadamard Transform

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Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security

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The reason behind the extension of digitized media is a speedy augmentation of multimedia data transaction over the Internet. For this reason, there arises the need for copyright fortification for multimedia data. On this, time digital watermarking can be the best solution to this problem. Following this, the basis on Hadamard transform for the image authentication a blind watermarking process is proposed in this succeeding paper. To implant the watermark, the proposed method used breadth-first search algorithm for finding the efficient embedding point. Additionally, PSNR and NCC have been taken into account for finding the performance of watermark. The result of the experiment showed significant sturdiness against enhancement and noise addition attacks such as compression by JPEG, cropping, sharpening, and filtering. In comparison with other available watermarking techniques, the result of regarding experiment has shown better inaudibility and vigor.

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Sharmin, S., Khaliluzzaman, M., Mahiuddin, M., Kafi, A. (2019). Blind Digital Image Watermarking for Copyright Protection Based on Hadamard Transform. In: Abraham, A., Dutta, P., Mandal, J., Bhattacharya, A., Dutta, S. (eds) Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 814. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1501-5_18

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