Abstract
With the growth of multimedia systems in distributed environments, the research of multimedia security as well as multimedia copyright protection becomes an important issue. As a potential and effective way to solve this problem, digital watermarking becomes a very active research area of signal and information processing. Many watermark algorithms have been proposed to address this issue of ownership identification. Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) based spread-spectrum watermarking is one of the famous techniques. Another possible domain for watermark embedding is the wavelet domain. One of the many advantages over the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is that more accurately model aspects of the human visual system (HVS).
In this paper a proposed algorithm is defined based on the combination between the benefits provides by using wavelet domain and profits of Code division multiple access (CDMA) spread-spectrum technique. A pseudo-random sequence (key) that related to hidden message is embedded into the significant DWT coefficients of a cover image to produce a watermarked image. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is perceptual invisible and robust against many attacks such as lossy image compression and Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN).
Keywords: digital watermark, wavelet transform, CDMA technique.
