HSV Image Watermarking Scheme Based on Visual Cryptography

Authors: Rawan I. Zaghloul, Enas F. Al-Rawashdeh

Abstract:

In this paper a simple watermarking method for color images is proposed. The proposed method is based on watermark embedding for the histograms of the HSV planes using visual cryptography watermarking. The method has been proved to be robust for various image processing operations such as filtering, compression, additive noise, and various geometrical attacks such as rotation, scaling, cropping, flipping, and shearing.

Keywords: Histogram, HSV image, Visual Cryptography, Watermark.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1082303

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