Convolutional Neural Network-Based Image Watermarking using Discrete Wavelet Transform

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.06179v1
• Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2022 22:54:46 GMT
• Title: Convolutional Neural Network-Based Image Watermarking using Discrete Wavelet Transform
• Authors: Alireza Tavakoli, Zahra Honjani and Hedieh Sajedi
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a combination of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and wavelet transforms to obtain a watermarking network. The network is independent of the host image resolution, can accept all kinds of watermarks, and has only 11 CNN layers while keeping performance.
• Score: 5.1779694507922835
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: As the Internet becomes more popular, digital images are used and transferred more frequently. Although this phenomenon facilitates easy access to information, it also creates security concerns and violates intellectual property rights by allowing illegal use, copying, and digital content theft. Using watermarks (WMs) in digital images is one of the most common ways to maintain security. Watermarking is proving and declaring ownership of an image by adding a digital watermark to the original image. Watermarks can be either text or an image placed overtly or covertly in an image and are expected to be challenging to remove. This paper proposes a combination of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and wavelet transforms to obtain a watermarking network for embedding and extracting watermarks. The network is independent of the host image resolution, can accept all kinds of watermarks, and has only 11 CNN layers while keeping performance. Two terms measure performance; the similarity between the extracted watermark and the original one and the similarity between the host image and the watermarked one.

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