Jun-cai Yao. Blind watermarking algorithm for colour image based on human visual contrast sensitivity characteristics[J]. Chinese journal of liquid crystals and displays, 2017, 32(8): 642-649.
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Jun-cai Yao. Blind watermarking algorithm for colour image based on human visual contrast sensitivity characteristics[J]. Chinese journal of liquid crystals and displays, 2017, 32(8): 642-649. DOI: 10.3788/YJYXS20173208.0642.
Blind watermarking algorithm for colour image based on human visual contrast sensitivity characteristics
Aiming at the balance between watermarking transparency
robustness and watermarking capacity
a blind watermarking algorithm for color images is proposed based on the contrast sensitivity characteristics of human visual system (HVS) in this paper. In this algorithm
firstly
according to the contrast sensitivity characteristics of HVS and its calculation models
the contrast sensitivity thresholds from HVS perceiving the original image are calculated in the frequency field. And combined with the strength perception model of HVS
the perceived strengths of the watermarking images are calculated. Then according to the coefficients of embedding strengths
the digital watermarkings are embedded by taking the contrast sensitivity perceived original images as the thresholds of the watermarkings embedding quantity. Finally
based on the key
the inverse process is carried out to extract the watermarkings. The experimental results show that under the strong attack that the watermarked image is compressed by quality factor 20% and 1/4 size is sheared in the intermediate region of image
the similarity between the original watermarking and the extracted watermarking can reach more than 0.78. And the proposed watermarking algorithm has good transparency.
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