Recent trends in image watermarking techniques for copyright protection: a survey
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TRENDS AND SURVEYS
Recent trends in image watermarking techniques for copyright protection: a survey Arkadip Ray1
· Somaditya Roy2
Received: 9 July 2020 / Revised: 18 September 2020 / Accepted: 3 October 2020 © Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Digital copyright protection signifies the technology of rights protection, utilization control, and management of digital substances in the activity of production, propagation, retailing, and consumption. In the era of digital boom in information technology and multimedia, malicious exploitations and piracy have become a global phenomenon; thus, the need for digital content protection is inexorable. Image watermarking has been advocated universally to resolve innumerable dilemmas correlated with issues in the fields of digital rights management and multimedia security. According to anticipated applications, various suitable image watermarking procedures have been designed to safeguard the copyright of digital subjects. In this study, contemporary developments of digital image watermarking techniques are appraised so as to identify state-of-theart practices and their limitations. This research contribution will be expedient for the academics in instigating efficient watermarking techniques for copyright authentication. Keywords Watermarking · Copyright protection · Transform domain · Imperceptibility · Robustness
1 Introduction In the twenty-first century, the internet turns out to be an alluring treasure trove of knowledge to multi-billion users. The rapid development of multimedia technologies has smoothened the way for communication and content distribution globally. This digital upheaval has fostered the rise of unlawful activities like unauthorized distribution, illegal copying, and editing, copyright violation of multimedia content. In such a scenario, authentication of sources, providers, and content of digital media is of grave importance. Various data hiding methods such as cryptography, steganography, and watermarking have been developed to protect intellectual property rights (IPR) of digital content. Digital watermarking ensures secret information hiding to prevent malicious
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Arkadip Ray [email protected] Somaditya Roy [email protected]
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Department of Information Technology, Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology, Kolkata, West Bengal 700010, India
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Department of Information Technology, Techno Engineering College Banipur, Habra, West Bengal 743233, India
tampering, piracy, and dissemination of content. Digital image watermarking embeds sensitive information into the accommodating image without degrading image perceptual (visual) quality. After extraction, this secret identifier or the watermark is useful for content authentication, copyright protection, and proprietor verification. Performance assessment metrics for any watermarking strategy are imperceptibility, robustness, capacity, and security [1]. These properties are the fundamental requirements that need to be fulfilled when designi
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