A NEW NESTED HYBRID DWT-HD-SVD WATERMARKING SCHEME FOR DIGITAL IMAGES

Sara R. Qasim; Maryam KALIFA ABBOUD; Eman Hassony Jaddoua

doi:10.30572/2018/KJE/150406

Authors

Sara R. Qasim Department of Computer Engineering/College of Engineering/Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq
Maryam KALIFA ABBOUD College of Electrical Engineering Technical/Middle Technical University, Baghdad, Iraq
Eman Hassony Jaddoua Computer Engineering Department/Ministry of Culture, Baghdad, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30572/2018/KJE/150406

Keywords:

Digital Image watermarking;, DWT;, SVD;, HD;, Copyright protection;

Abstract

Digital watermarking encrypts private information with the original data to protect the ownership rights of the digital asset. This paper suggests a brand-new nested watermarking technique (two-level watermarking technique) to protect copyrights of digital images. It based on a hybrid discrete wave transformation-Hessenberg decomposition-Singular value decomposition (DWT-HD-SVD). The gray-watermark image is first split into n parts, and each portion goes through two steps of watermarking, using two host images, using hybrid DWT-HD-SVD method and one final level of encryption (based on the Lightweight algorithm, the high-speed cryptographic method). The results of the simulation reveal that the suggested system offers a high level of imperceptibility, reliability and robustness. Also it can be used for both the colored and the grayed images.

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