{"title":"A Copyright Protection Scheme for Color Images using Secret Sharing and Wavelet Transform","authors":"Shang-Lin Hsieh, Lung-Yao Hsu, I-Ju Tsai","volume":10,"journal":"International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering","pagesStart":3172,"pagesEnd":3179,"ISSN":"1307-6892","URL":"https:\/\/publications.waset.org\/pdf\/2813","abstract":"
This paper proposes a copyright protection scheme for color images using secret sharing and wavelet transform. The scheme contains two phases: the share image generation phase and the watermark retrieval phase. In the generation phase, the proposed scheme first converts the image into the YCbCr color space and creates a special sampling plane from the color space. Next, the scheme extracts the features from the sampling plane using the discrete wavelet transform. Then, the scheme employs the features and the watermark to generate a principal share image. In the retrieval phase, an expanded watermark is first reconstructed using the features of the suspect image and the principal share image. Next, the scheme reduces the additional noise to obtain the recovered watermark, which is then verified against the original watermark to examine the copyright. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme can resist several attacks such as JPEG compression, blurring, sharpening, noise addition, and cropping. The accuracy rates are all higher than 97%.<\/p>\r\n","references":"[1] Shang-Lin Hsieh and Bin-Yuan Huang, \"A Copyright Protection\r\nScheme for Gray-Level Images Based on Image Secret Sharing and\r\nWavelet Transformation,\" Proceedings of International Computer\r\nSymposium, 2004.\r\n[2] C.C. Chang and J. C. Chuang, \"An image intellectual property\r\nprotection scheme for gray-level images using visual secret sharing\r\nstrategy,\" Pattern Reconition Letters, vol. 23, pp. 931-941, June\r\n2002.\r\n[3] Ren-Junn Hwang, \"A Digital Image Copyright Protection Scheme\r\nBased on Visual Cryptography,\" Tamkang Journal of Science and\r\nEngineering, vol.3, No. 2, pp. 97-106,2000.\r\n[4] San-Hwa Wu and Hsiu-Feng Lin, \"A Non-Embedded\r\nWatermarking Scheme for Non-Distortion Digital Product\r\nCopyright Verification, \"2004.\r\n[5] Xiang Zhou, Xiaohui Duan and Daoxian Wang, \"A Semi-Fragile\r\nWatermark for Image Authentication,\" Proceedings of the 10th\r\nInternational Multimedia Modelling Conference, 2004.\r\n[6] Xiaoqiang Li and Xiangyang Xue, \"Improved Robust\r\nWatermarking in DCT Domain for Color Image,\" Proceedings of\r\nthe 12th International Conference on Advanced Information\r\nNetworking and Network, 2004.\r\n[7] Narges Ahmidi and Reza Safabakhsh, \"A Novel DCT-based\r\nApproach for Secure Color Image Watermark,\" Proceedings of the\r\nInternational Conference on Information Technology, 2004.\r\n[8] Chun-Hsien Chou and Tung-Lin Wu, \"Embedding Color\r\nWatermarks in color Images,\" IEEE, 2004.\r\n[9] D.J.Fleet and D.J.Heeger, \"Embedding Invisible Information in\r\nColor Image,\" in proc.ICIP-97, pp.532-535, Oct. 1997.\r\n[10] M. kutter, F.Jordan and F. Bossen, \"Digital Signature of Color\r\nImages Using Amplitude Modulation, \" in Storage and Retrieval for\r\nImage and Video Database V, SPIE, vol.3022.pp. 518-526,San Jose,\r\nCa Febuary 8-14, 1997.\r\n[11] Lukac, R.; Plataniotis, K.N., \"A secret sharing scheme for image\r\nencryption\", 46th International Symposium, pp. 549- 554, June\r\n2004.\r\n[12] M. Naor and A. Shamir, \"Visual cryptography\", Advances in\r\nCryptology-EUROCRYPT-94, Lect. Notes in Comput. Sci. vol.\r\n950, pp.1-12, 1995.\r\n[13] G. Voyatzis and I. Pitas, \"Applications of torus automorphisms in\r\nimage watermarking,\" in Proc. Int. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP),\r\nvol. 3, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 1996, pp. 237-240.\r\n[14] Chin-Chen Chang, Ju-Yuan Hsiao and Chi-Lung Chiang, \"An\r\nImage Copyright Protection Scheme Based on Torus\r\nAutomorphism\", First International Symposium on Cyber Worlds\r\n(CW'02) November 06 - 08, 2002.","publisher":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology","index":"Open Science Index 10, 2007"}