This paper presents a hybrid watermarking technique for medical images. The method uses a combination
of three transforms: Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), and singular
value decomposition (SVD). Then, the paper discusses the results of applying the combined method on
different medical images from eight patients. The images were watermarked with a small watermark image
representing the patients' medical data. The visual quality of the watermarked images (before and after
attacks) was analyzed using five quality metrics: PSNR, WSNR, PSNR-HVS-M, PSNR-HVS, and MSSIM.
The first four metrics' average values of the watermarked medical images before attacks were
approximately 32 db, 35 db, 42 db, and 40 db respectively; while the MSSM index indicated a similarity
between the original and watermarked images of more than 97%. However, the metric values decreased
significantly after attacking the images with various operations even though the watermark image could be
retrieved after almost all attacks. In brief, the initial results indicate that watermarking medical images
with patients' data does not significantly affect their visual quality and they can still be used by medical
staff
AN INVESTIGATION OF WATERMARKING MEDICAL IMAGEScscpconf
This paper presents the results of watermarking selected various medical cover images with
simple string of letters image (patients' medical data) using a combination of the Discrete
Wavelet Transform (DWT) Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and singular value decomposition
(SVD). The visual quality of the watermarked images (before and after attacks) was analyzed
using PSNR and four visual quality metrics (WSNR, MSSIM, PSNR-HVS-M, and PSNR-HVS).
The PSNR, PSNR-HVS-M, PSNR-HVS, and WSNR average values of the watermarked medical
images before attacks were about the 32 db, 35 db, and 42 db, 40 db respectively; while the
MSSM index indicated a similarity of more than 97% between the original and watermarked
images. The metric values decreased significantly after attacking the images with various
operations but the watermark image could be retrieved after almost all attacks. Thus, the initial
results indicate that watermarking medical images with the patients' data does not significantly
affect their visual quality and they still can be utilized for their medical purpose.
Hybrid Digital Image Watermarking using Contourlet Transform (CT), DCT and SVDCSCJournals
Role of watermarking is dramatically enhanced due to the emerging technologies like IoT, Data analysis, and automation in many sectors of identity. Due to these many devices are connected through internet and networking and large amounts of data is generated and transmitted. Here security of the data is very much needed. The algorithm used for the watermarking is to be robust against various processes (attacks) such as filtering, compression and cropping etc. To increase the robustness, in the paper a hybrid algorithm is proposed by combining three transforms such as Contourlet, Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). Performance of Algorithm is evaluated by using similarity metrics such as NCC, MSE and PSNR.
A Comparative Study of Image Compression AlgorithmsIJORCS
The document compares three image compression algorithms: Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), and a hybrid DCT-DWT algorithm. DCT is used in JPEG and provides simple hardware implementation but can cause blocking artifacts at high compression. DWT provides multi-resolution decomposition and achieves higher compression ratios but requires more computation. The hybrid algorithm aims to combine the advantages of DCT and DWT by applying DWT followed by DCT, allowing for better performance than either individual method. Experimental results showed the hybrid approach generally had better performance in terms of PSNR, MSE, and compression ratio.
This document compares the DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) and DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform) image compression techniques. It finds that DWT provides higher compression ratios and avoids blocking artifacts compared to DCT. DWT allows for better localization in both spatial and frequency domains. It also has inherent scaling and better identifies visually relevant data, leading to higher compression ratios. However, DCT is faster than DWT. Experimental results on test images show that DWT achieves higher PSNR and lower MSE and BER than DCT, while providing a slightly higher compression ratio and completing compression more quickly.
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PERCEPTUAL COPYRIGHT PROTECTION USING MULTIRESOLUTION WAVELET-BASED WATERMARK...gerogepatton
In this paper, an efficiently DWT-based watermarking technique is proposed to embed signatures in images to attest the owner identification and discourage the unauthorized copying. This paper deals with a fuzzy inference filter to choose the larger entropy of coefficients to embed watermarks. Unlike most previous watermarking frameworks which embedded watermarks in the larger coefficients of inner coarser subbands, the proposed technique is based on utilizing a context model and fuzzy inference filter by embedding watermarks in the larger-entropy coefficients of coarser DWT subbands. The proposed approaches allow us to embed adaptive casting degree of watermarks for transparency and robustness to the general image-processing attacks such as smoothing, sharpening, and JPEG compression. The approach has no need the original host image to extract watermarks. Our schemes have been shown to provide very good results in both image transparency and robustness.
This document discusses wavelet transforms and fast wavelet transforms for image compression. It provides background on discrete wavelet transforms (DWT) and fast wavelet transforms. DWT is useful for image compression because it concentrates image energy into low-frequency coefficients. Compression is achieved by quantizing coefficients, prioritizing low-frequency ones. Popular image compression techniques like JPEG2000 use DWT. Fast wavelet transforms like Mallat's algorithm allow faster image analysis than DWT. The document reviews various image compression techniques and their performance in terms of compression ratio and image quality.
AN INVESTIGATION OF WATERMARKING MEDICAL IMAGEScscpconf
This paper presents the results of watermarking selected various medical cover images with
simple string of letters image (patients' medical data) using a combination of the Discrete
Wavelet Transform (DWT) Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and singular value decomposition
(SVD). The visual quality of the watermarked images (before and after attacks) was analyzed
using PSNR and four visual quality metrics (WSNR, MSSIM, PSNR-HVS-M, and PSNR-HVS).
The PSNR, PSNR-HVS-M, PSNR-HVS, and WSNR average values of the watermarked medical
images before attacks were about the 32 db, 35 db, and 42 db, 40 db respectively; while the
MSSM index indicated a similarity of more than 97% between the original and watermarked
images. The metric values decreased significantly after attacking the images with various
operations but the watermark image could be retrieved after almost all attacks. Thus, the initial
results indicate that watermarking medical images with the patients' data does not significantly
affect their visual quality and they still can be utilized for their medical purpose.
Hybrid Digital Image Watermarking using Contourlet Transform (CT), DCT and SVDCSCJournals
Role of watermarking is dramatically enhanced due to the emerging technologies like IoT, Data analysis, and automation in many sectors of identity. Due to these many devices are connected through internet and networking and large amounts of data is generated and transmitted. Here security of the data is very much needed. The algorithm used for the watermarking is to be robust against various processes (attacks) such as filtering, compression and cropping etc. To increase the robustness, in the paper a hybrid algorithm is proposed by combining three transforms such as Contourlet, Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). Performance of Algorithm is evaluated by using similarity metrics such as NCC, MSE and PSNR.
A Comparative Study of Image Compression AlgorithmsIJORCS
The document compares three image compression algorithms: Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), and a hybrid DCT-DWT algorithm. DCT is used in JPEG and provides simple hardware implementation but can cause blocking artifacts at high compression. DWT provides multi-resolution decomposition and achieves higher compression ratios but requires more computation. The hybrid algorithm aims to combine the advantages of DCT and DWT by applying DWT followed by DCT, allowing for better performance than either individual method. Experimental results showed the hybrid approach generally had better performance in terms of PSNR, MSE, and compression ratio.
This document compares the DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) and DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform) image compression techniques. It finds that DWT provides higher compression ratios and avoids blocking artifacts compared to DCT. DWT allows for better localization in both spatial and frequency domains. It also has inherent scaling and better identifies visually relevant data, leading to higher compression ratios. However, DCT is faster than DWT. Experimental results on test images show that DWT achieves higher PSNR and lower MSE and BER than DCT, while providing a slightly higher compression ratio and completing compression more quickly.
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PERCEPTUAL COPYRIGHT PROTECTION USING MULTIRESOLUTION WAVELET-BASED WATERMARK...gerogepatton
In this paper, an efficiently DWT-based watermarking technique is proposed to embed signatures in images to attest the owner identification and discourage the unauthorized copying. This paper deals with a fuzzy inference filter to choose the larger entropy of coefficients to embed watermarks. Unlike most previous watermarking frameworks which embedded watermarks in the larger coefficients of inner coarser subbands, the proposed technique is based on utilizing a context model and fuzzy inference filter by embedding watermarks in the larger-entropy coefficients of coarser DWT subbands. The proposed approaches allow us to embed adaptive casting degree of watermarks for transparency and robustness to the general image-processing attacks such as smoothing, sharpening, and JPEG compression. The approach has no need the original host image to extract watermarks. Our schemes have been shown to provide very good results in both image transparency and robustness.
This document discusses wavelet transforms and fast wavelet transforms for image compression. It provides background on discrete wavelet transforms (DWT) and fast wavelet transforms. DWT is useful for image compression because it concentrates image energy into low-frequency coefficients. Compression is achieved by quantizing coefficients, prioritizing low-frequency ones. Popular image compression techniques like JPEG2000 use DWT. Fast wavelet transforms like Mallat's algorithm allow faster image analysis than DWT. The document reviews various image compression techniques and their performance in terms of compression ratio and image quality.
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a content-based hybrid DWT-DCT watermarking technique for image authentication in color images. The technique embeds statistical features extracted from the host image as the watermark. Four different statistical features are used to generate the watermark - the Frobenius norm, mean, standard deviation, and combined mean and standard deviation of the host image blocks. The watermark is then embedded into the host image by applying both DWT and DCT transforms. During extraction, the same process is applied to extract the watermark for authentication. Experimental results show the technique is robust against various attacks like compression, noise, and filters.
Digital Image Compression using Hybrid Scheme using DWT and Quantization wit...IRJET Journal
This document discusses a hybrid image compression technique using both discrete cosine transform (DCT) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT). It begins with an introduction to image compression and its goals of reducing file size while maintaining quality. Next, it outlines the proposed hybrid compression method, which applies DWT to blocks of the image, then DCT to the approximation coefficients from DWT. This is intended to achieve higher compression ratios than DCT or DWT alone, with fewer blocking artifacts and false contours. Simulation results on various test images show the hybrid method provides higher PSNR and lower MSE than the individual transforms, demonstrating it outperforms them in terms of both quality and compression. The document concludes the hybrid approach is more suitable for
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new digital image watermarking technique using discrete wavelet transform and singular value decomposition (DWT-SVD). The technique embeds a watermark in the high frequency subbands of an image after applying DWT and SVD. Experimental results show the watermarked images have high quality as measured by PSNR. The extracted watermarks are robust to common image distortions like noise, filtering, and cropping as measured by normalized cross correlation. A comparison shows the proposed technique provides better image quality and watermark extraction than a previous DWT-based method. The technique could provide copyright protection for digital images.
FINGERPRINTS IMAGE COMPRESSION BY WAVE ATOMScsandit
The document presents a study comparing fingerprint image compression using wavelets and wave atoms transforms. It finds that wave atoms transforms provide better performance than current wavelet-based standards like WSQ. Specifically:
- Wave atoms achieved higher PSNR values and compression ratios than wavelets when reconstructing images from a reduced number of coefficients.
- An algorithm was proposed using wave atom decomposition, non-uniform quantization, and entropy coding that achieved a compression ratio of 18 with a PSNR of 35.04 dB, outperforming the WSQ standard.
- Minutiae detection on original and reconstructed images showed wave atoms better preserved local fingerprint structures. Therefore, wave atoms are concluded to be more suitable than wavelets
A Comprehensive lossless modified compression in medical application on DICOM...IOSR Journals
ABSTRACT : In current days, Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) is widely used for
viewing medical images from different modalities, distribution and storage. Image processing can be processed
by photographic, optical and electronic means, because digital methods are precise, fast and flexible, image
processing using digital computers are the most common method. Image Processing can extract information,
modify pictures to improves and change their structure (image editing, composition and image compression
etc.). Image compression is the major entities of storage system and communication which is capable of
crippling disadvantages of data transmission and image storage and also capable of reducing the data
redundancy. Medical images are require to stored for future reference of the patients and their hospital findings
hence, the medical image need to undergo the process of compression before storing it. Medical images are
much important in the field of medicine, all these Medical image compression is necessary for huge database
storage in Medical Centre and medical data transfer for the purpose of diagnosis. Presently Discrete cosine
transforms (DCT), Run Length Encoding Lossless compression technique, Wavelet transforms (DWT), are the
most usefully and wider accepted approach for the purpose of compression. On basis of based on discrete
wavelet transform we present a new DICOM based lossless image compression method. In the proposed
method, each DICOM image stored in the data set is compressed on the basis of vertically, horizontally and
diagonally compression. We analyze the results from our study of all the DICOM images in the data set using
two quality measures namely PSNR and RMSE. The performance and comparison was made over each images
stored in the set of data set of DICOM images. This work is presenting the performance comparison between
input images (without compression) and after compression results for each images in the data set using DWT
method. Further the performance of DWT method with HAAR process is compared with 2D-DWT method using
the quality metrics of PSNR & RMSE. The performance of these methods for image compression has been
simulated using MATLAB.
Keywords: JPEG, DCT, DWT, SPIHT, DICOM, VQ, Lossless Compression, Wavelet Transform, image
Compression, PSNR, RMSE
Abstract: The increasing amount of applications using digital multimedia technologies has accentuated the need to provide copyright protection to multimedia data. This paper reviews one of the data hiding techniques - digital image watermarking. Through this paper we will explore some basic concepts of digital image watermarking techniques.Two different methods of digital image watermarking namely spatial domain watermarking and transform domain watermarking are briefly discussed in this paper. Furthermore, two different algorithms for a digital image watermarking have also been discussed. Also the comparision between the different algorithms,tests performed for the robustness and the applications of the digital image watermarking have also been discussed.
Digital watermarking with a new algorithmeSAT Journals
Abstract Everyday millions of data need to transmit through a distinct channel for various purposes; as a result there is a certain chance of third person interruption on that data. In this regards digital watermarking is one of the best solution. This paper proposes a new embedding algorithm (NEA) of digital watermarking. The algorithm is performed for digital image as data. The performance is compared for NEA and well established Cox's modified embedding algorithm. The watermarking is based on discrete wavelet transforms (DWT) and discrete cosine transforms (DCT). The acceptance of the new algorithm is measured by the two requirements of digital watermarking. One is imperceptibility of the watermarked image, measured by peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) in dB; another one is robustness of the mark image, measured by correlation of original mark image and recovering mark image. Here a 512×512 gray scale "Lena" and "Cameraman's" image is taken as host images, and a 128×128 gray scale image is taken as mark image for 2 level of DWT. The simulation results for different attacking conditions such as salt and pepper attack, additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) attack, jpg compression attack, gamma attack, histogram attack, cropping attack, sharpening attack etc. After different attacks the changing tendency PSNR for both algorithms are similar. But the mean square error (MSE) value of NEA is always less than Cox’s modified algorithm, which means that after embedding the changes of the host image property lower for NEA than Cox’s algorithm. From the simulation results it can be said that NEA will be a substitute of modified Cox’s algorithm with better performance. Keywords: Digital watermark, DWT, DCT, Cox’s modified algorithm, Lena image, Cameraman image, AWGN, JPG, salt and pepper attack, PSNR, correlation, MSE.
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REVIEW ON TRANSFORM BASED MEDICAL IMAGE COMPRESSION cscpconf
Advance medical imaging requires storage of large quantities of digitized clinical data. Due to
the bandwidth and storage limitations, medical images must be compressed before transmission
and storage. Diagnosis is effective only when compression techniques preserve all the relevant
and important image information needed. There are basically two types of image compression:
lossless and lossy. Lossless coding does not permit high compression ratios where as lossy
achieve high compression ratio. Among the existing lossy compression schemes, transform
coding is one of the most effective strategies. In this paper, a review has been made on the
different compression techniques on medical images based on transforms like Discrete Cosine
Transform(DCT), Discrete Wavelet Transform(DWT), Hybrid DCT-DWT and Contourlet
transform. And it has been analyzed that Contourlet transform have superior overall
performance over other transforms in terms of PSNR.
A novel rrw framework to resist accidental attackseSAT Journals
Abstract Robust reversible watermarking (RRW) methods are popular in multimedia for protecting copyright, while preserving intactness of host images and providing robustness against unintentional attacks. Robust reversible watermarking (RRW) is used to protect the copyrights and providing robustness against unintentional attacks. The past histogram rotation-based methods suffer from extremely poor invisibility for watermarked images and limited robustness in extracting watermarks from the watermarked images destroyed by unintentional attacks. This paper proposes a wavelet-domain statistical quantity histogram shifting and clustering (WSQH-SC) method and Enhanced pixel-wise masking (EPWM). This method embeds a new watermark image and extraction procedures by histogram shifting and clustering, which are important for improving robustness and reducing run-time complexity. It is possible reversibility and invisibility. By using WSQH-SC methods reversibility, invisibility of watermarks can be achieved. The experimental results show the comprehensive performance in terms of reversibility, robustness, invisibility, capacity and run-time complexity widely applicable to different kinds of images. Keywords: — Integer wavelet transform, k-means clustering, masking, robust reversible watermarking (RRW)
This document discusses parallel processing and compound image compression techniques. It examines the computational complexity and quantitative optimization of various image compression algorithms like BTC, DCT, DWT, DTCWT, SPIHT and EZW. The performance is evaluated in terms of coding efficiency, memory usage, image quality and quantity. Block Truncation Coding and Discrete Cosine Transform compression methods are described in more detail.
Near Reversible Data Hiding Scheme for images using DCTIJERA Editor
This document presents a near-reversible data hiding scheme for images using discrete cosine transform (DCT). In the proposed scheme, data is embedded in the non-zero AC coefficients of DCT blocks in a way that minimizes modifications to the original coefficients, improving visual quality. During embedding, two mathematical functions are used to modify coefficients by amounts closer to their original values compared to other methods. Experimental results on test images show the proposed scheme achieves better visual quality than existing schemes while maintaining data hiding capacity and reversibility.
Comparative Study between DCT and Wavelet Transform Based Image Compression A...IOSR Journals
This document compares DCT and wavelet transform based image compression algorithms. It finds that wavelet transforms provide better compression ratios and lower mean square errors than DCT. As the level of the wavelet transform increases, the compression ratio increases while the mean square error initially decreases for wavelet levels 1-3. While DCT has faster encoding, it produces blocking artifacts, whereas wavelet transforms maintain good visual quality at higher compression ratios by considering correlations across blocks. Overall, the study shows that wavelet transforms enable higher compression with better visual quality than DCT.
SVD Based Robust Digital Watermarking For Still Images Using Wavelet Transform cscpconf
This paper aims at developing a hybrid image watermarking algorithm which satisfies both
imperceptibility and robustness requirements. In order to achieve our objectives we have used
singular values of Wavelet Transformation’s HL and LH sub bands to embed watermark.
Further to increase and control the strength of the watermark, we use a scale factor. An optimal
watermark embedding method is developed to achieve minimum watermarking distortion. A
secret embedding key is designed to securely embed the fragile watermarks so that the new
method is robust to counterfeiting, even when the malicious attackers are fully aware of the
watermark embedding algorithm. Experimental results are provided in terms of Peak signal to
noise ratio (PSNR), Normalized cross correlation (NCC) and gain factor to demonstrate the
effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Image operations such as JPEG compression from
malicious image attacks and, thus, can be used for semi-fragile watermarking
A Novel DWT-CT approach in Digital Watermarking using PSOrahulmonikasharma
The importance of watermarking is dramatically enhanced due to the promising technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), Data analysis, and automation of identification in many sectors. Due to these reasons, systems are inter-connected through networking and internet and huge amounts of information is generated, distributed and transmitted over the World Wide Web. Thus authentication of the information is a challenging task. The algorithm developed for the watermarking needs to be robust against various attack such as salt & peppers, filtering, compression and cropping etc. This paper focuses on the robustness of the algorithm by using a hybrid approach of two transforms such as Contourlet, Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). Also, the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is used to optimize the embedding strength factor. The proposed digital watermarking algorithm has been tested against common types of image attacks. Experiment results for the proposed algorithm gives better performance by using similarity metrics such as NCC (Normalized Cross Correlation value) and PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio).
A Blind Multiple Watermarks based on Human Visual Characteristics IJECEIAES
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a multiple watermark embedding scheme based on human visual characteristics. The scheme embeds two watermarks in the luminance and chrominance blue components of an image. It uses Arnold scrambling to increase security, and embeds watermarks in the singular value decomposition domain by modifying coefficients based on a threshold. The proposed scheme is evaluated based on imperceptibility using SSIM and robustness using normalized cross-correlation and bit error rate. Experimental results show the scheme provides improved invisibility and resistance to various attacks.
A Novel and Robust Wavelet based Super Resolution Reconstruction of Low Resol...CSCJournals
High Resolution images can be reconstructed from several blurred, noisy and aliased low resolution images using a computational process know as super resolution reconstruction. Super resolution reconstruction is the process of combining several low resolution images into a single higher resolution image. In this paper we concentrate on a special case of super resolution problem where the wrap is composed of pure translation and rotation, the blur is space invariant and the noise is additive white Gaussian noise. Super resolution reconstruction consists of registration, restoration and interpolation phases. Once the Low resolution image are registered with respect to a reference frame then wavelet based restoration is performed to remove the blur and noise from the images, finally the images are interpolated using adaptive interpolation. We are proposing an efficient wavelet based denoising with adaptive interpolation for super resolution reconstruction. Under this frame work, the low resolution images are decomposed into many levels to obtain different frequency bands. Then our proposed novel soft thresholding technique is used to remove the noisy coefficients, by fixing optimum threshold value. In order to obtain an image of higher resolution we have proposed an adaptive interpolation technique. Our proposed wavelet based denoising with adaptive interpolation for super resolution reconstruction preserves the edges as well as smoothens the image without introducing artifacts. Experimental results show that the proposed approach has succeeded in obtaining a high-resolution image with a high PSNR, ISNR ratio and a good visual quality.
This document proposes an enhanced adaptive data hiding technique in the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) domain. It begins with background information on DWT and quantization techniques like uniform and adaptive quantization. It then describes how data can be embedded in the non-zero DWT coefficients after adaptive quantization. Specifically, it embeds secret data by modifying the quantized DWT coefficients in a way that minimizes distortion to maintain good visual quality of the cover image. The goal is to improve data hiding capacity while preserving the quality of the cover image as measured by metrics like peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and the human visual system (HVS).
A CONTENT BASED WATERMARKING SCHEME USING RADIAL SYMMETRY TRANSFORM AND SINGU...cscpconf
The Watermarking techniques represent actually a very important issue in digital multimedia
content distribution. To protect digital multimedia content we embed an invisible watermark
into images which facilitate the detection of different manipulations, duplication, illegitimate
distributions of these images. In this paper we present an approach to embedding invisible
watermarks into color images using a robust transform of images that is the Radial symmetry
transform. The watermark is inserted in blocs of eight pixels large of the blue channel using the
Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of these blocs and those of the radial symmetry transform.
The insertion in the blue channel is justified when we know that many works states that the
human visual system is less sensible to perturbation in the blue channel of the image. Results
obtained after tests show that the imperceptibility of the watermark using this approach is good
and its robustness face to different attacks leads to think that the proposed approach is a very
promising one.
DWT-DCT-SVD Based Semi Blind Image Watermarking Using Middle Frequency BandIOSR Journals
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a semi-blind image watermarking technique using discrete wavelet transform (DWT), discrete cosine transform (DCT), and singular value decomposition (SVD). The technique embeds a watermark in the middle frequency band of the DWT domain of a host image. It modifies the singular values of the DCT coefficients of the middle frequency band using singular values of the DCT transformed watermark. The watermark can then be extracted from the watermarked image using inverse processes. The technique was tested on various attacks and showed robustness, with correlation values between the extracted and original watermarks ranging from 0.5308 to 0.9665 and PSNR values indicating impercept
IRJET- An Improved Technique for Hiding Secret Image on Colour Images usi...IRJET Journal
This document presents a hybrid steganography technique that embeds a secret image into a cover image using discrete wavelet transform (DWT), discrete cosine transform (DCT), and singular value decomposition (SVD). The cover image is decomposed using DWT and its high frequency components are replaced with the secret image, which is first decomposed using SVD and DCT. Experimental results show correlation coefficients above 0.999 when extracting the secret image, indicating high quality extraction. The technique provides improved steganography by embedding the secret image in the visually insensitive high frequency components of the cover image.
Performance comparison of hybrid wavelet transforms formed using dct, walsh, ...ijcsit
1. The document discusses a proposed watermarking method using hybrid wavelet transforms and singular value decomposition (SVD).
2. Hybrid wavelet transforms are generated from combinations of discrete cosine transform (DCT), Walsh, Haar, and discrete Kekre transform (DKT). DCT is tested as both the global and local component of the hybrid transform.
3. SVD is applied to the watermark before embedding in the mid-frequency coefficients of the hybrid wavelet transformed host image.
4. The method is tested against various attacks including compression, cropping, noise addition, and resizing. Using DCT as the global component is found to be more robust, particularly against compression attacks.
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a content-based hybrid DWT-DCT watermarking technique for image authentication in color images. The technique embeds statistical features extracted from the host image as the watermark. Four different statistical features are used to generate the watermark - the Frobenius norm, mean, standard deviation, and combined mean and standard deviation of the host image blocks. The watermark is then embedded into the host image by applying both DWT and DCT transforms. During extraction, the same process is applied to extract the watermark for authentication. Experimental results show the technique is robust against various attacks like compression, noise, and filters.
Digital Image Compression using Hybrid Scheme using DWT and Quantization wit...IRJET Journal
This document discusses a hybrid image compression technique using both discrete cosine transform (DCT) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT). It begins with an introduction to image compression and its goals of reducing file size while maintaining quality. Next, it outlines the proposed hybrid compression method, which applies DWT to blocks of the image, then DCT to the approximation coefficients from DWT. This is intended to achieve higher compression ratios than DCT or DWT alone, with fewer blocking artifacts and false contours. Simulation results on various test images show the hybrid method provides higher PSNR and lower MSE than the individual transforms, demonstrating it outperforms them in terms of both quality and compression. The document concludes the hybrid approach is more suitable for
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new digital image watermarking technique using discrete wavelet transform and singular value decomposition (DWT-SVD). The technique embeds a watermark in the high frequency subbands of an image after applying DWT and SVD. Experimental results show the watermarked images have high quality as measured by PSNR. The extracted watermarks are robust to common image distortions like noise, filtering, and cropping as measured by normalized cross correlation. A comparison shows the proposed technique provides better image quality and watermark extraction than a previous DWT-based method. The technique could provide copyright protection for digital images.
FINGERPRINTS IMAGE COMPRESSION BY WAVE ATOMScsandit
The document presents a study comparing fingerprint image compression using wavelets and wave atoms transforms. It finds that wave atoms transforms provide better performance than current wavelet-based standards like WSQ. Specifically:
- Wave atoms achieved higher PSNR values and compression ratios than wavelets when reconstructing images from a reduced number of coefficients.
- An algorithm was proposed using wave atom decomposition, non-uniform quantization, and entropy coding that achieved a compression ratio of 18 with a PSNR of 35.04 dB, outperforming the WSQ standard.
- Minutiae detection on original and reconstructed images showed wave atoms better preserved local fingerprint structures. Therefore, wave atoms are concluded to be more suitable than wavelets
A Comprehensive lossless modified compression in medical application on DICOM...IOSR Journals
ABSTRACT : In current days, Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) is widely used for
viewing medical images from different modalities, distribution and storage. Image processing can be processed
by photographic, optical and electronic means, because digital methods are precise, fast and flexible, image
processing using digital computers are the most common method. Image Processing can extract information,
modify pictures to improves and change their structure (image editing, composition and image compression
etc.). Image compression is the major entities of storage system and communication which is capable of
crippling disadvantages of data transmission and image storage and also capable of reducing the data
redundancy. Medical images are require to stored for future reference of the patients and their hospital findings
hence, the medical image need to undergo the process of compression before storing it. Medical images are
much important in the field of medicine, all these Medical image compression is necessary for huge database
storage in Medical Centre and medical data transfer for the purpose of diagnosis. Presently Discrete cosine
transforms (DCT), Run Length Encoding Lossless compression technique, Wavelet transforms (DWT), are the
most usefully and wider accepted approach for the purpose of compression. On basis of based on discrete
wavelet transform we present a new DICOM based lossless image compression method. In the proposed
method, each DICOM image stored in the data set is compressed on the basis of vertically, horizontally and
diagonally compression. We analyze the results from our study of all the DICOM images in the data set using
two quality measures namely PSNR and RMSE. The performance and comparison was made over each images
stored in the set of data set of DICOM images. This work is presenting the performance comparison between
input images (without compression) and after compression results for each images in the data set using DWT
method. Further the performance of DWT method with HAAR process is compared with 2D-DWT method using
the quality metrics of PSNR & RMSE. The performance of these methods for image compression has been
simulated using MATLAB.
Keywords: JPEG, DCT, DWT, SPIHT, DICOM, VQ, Lossless Compression, Wavelet Transform, image
Compression, PSNR, RMSE
Abstract: The increasing amount of applications using digital multimedia technologies has accentuated the need to provide copyright protection to multimedia data. This paper reviews one of the data hiding techniques - digital image watermarking. Through this paper we will explore some basic concepts of digital image watermarking techniques.Two different methods of digital image watermarking namely spatial domain watermarking and transform domain watermarking are briefly discussed in this paper. Furthermore, two different algorithms for a digital image watermarking have also been discussed. Also the comparision between the different algorithms,tests performed for the robustness and the applications of the digital image watermarking have also been discussed.
Digital watermarking with a new algorithmeSAT Journals
Abstract Everyday millions of data need to transmit through a distinct channel for various purposes; as a result there is a certain chance of third person interruption on that data. In this regards digital watermarking is one of the best solution. This paper proposes a new embedding algorithm (NEA) of digital watermarking. The algorithm is performed for digital image as data. The performance is compared for NEA and well established Cox's modified embedding algorithm. The watermarking is based on discrete wavelet transforms (DWT) and discrete cosine transforms (DCT). The acceptance of the new algorithm is measured by the two requirements of digital watermarking. One is imperceptibility of the watermarked image, measured by peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) in dB; another one is robustness of the mark image, measured by correlation of original mark image and recovering mark image. Here a 512×512 gray scale "Lena" and "Cameraman's" image is taken as host images, and a 128×128 gray scale image is taken as mark image for 2 level of DWT. The simulation results for different attacking conditions such as salt and pepper attack, additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) attack, jpg compression attack, gamma attack, histogram attack, cropping attack, sharpening attack etc. After different attacks the changing tendency PSNR for both algorithms are similar. But the mean square error (MSE) value of NEA is always less than Cox’s modified algorithm, which means that after embedding the changes of the host image property lower for NEA than Cox’s algorithm. From the simulation results it can be said that NEA will be a substitute of modified Cox’s algorithm with better performance. Keywords: Digital watermark, DWT, DCT, Cox’s modified algorithm, Lena image, Cameraman image, AWGN, JPG, salt and pepper attack, PSNR, correlation, MSE.
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REVIEW ON TRANSFORM BASED MEDICAL IMAGE COMPRESSION cscpconf
Advance medical imaging requires storage of large quantities of digitized clinical data. Due to
the bandwidth and storage limitations, medical images must be compressed before transmission
and storage. Diagnosis is effective only when compression techniques preserve all the relevant
and important image information needed. There are basically two types of image compression:
lossless and lossy. Lossless coding does not permit high compression ratios where as lossy
achieve high compression ratio. Among the existing lossy compression schemes, transform
coding is one of the most effective strategies. In this paper, a review has been made on the
different compression techniques on medical images based on transforms like Discrete Cosine
Transform(DCT), Discrete Wavelet Transform(DWT), Hybrid DCT-DWT and Contourlet
transform. And it has been analyzed that Contourlet transform have superior overall
performance over other transforms in terms of PSNR.
A novel rrw framework to resist accidental attackseSAT Journals
Abstract Robust reversible watermarking (RRW) methods are popular in multimedia for protecting copyright, while preserving intactness of host images and providing robustness against unintentional attacks. Robust reversible watermarking (RRW) is used to protect the copyrights and providing robustness against unintentional attacks. The past histogram rotation-based methods suffer from extremely poor invisibility for watermarked images and limited robustness in extracting watermarks from the watermarked images destroyed by unintentional attacks. This paper proposes a wavelet-domain statistical quantity histogram shifting and clustering (WSQH-SC) method and Enhanced pixel-wise masking (EPWM). This method embeds a new watermark image and extraction procedures by histogram shifting and clustering, which are important for improving robustness and reducing run-time complexity. It is possible reversibility and invisibility. By using WSQH-SC methods reversibility, invisibility of watermarks can be achieved. The experimental results show the comprehensive performance in terms of reversibility, robustness, invisibility, capacity and run-time complexity widely applicable to different kinds of images. Keywords: — Integer wavelet transform, k-means clustering, masking, robust reversible watermarking (RRW)
This document discusses parallel processing and compound image compression techniques. It examines the computational complexity and quantitative optimization of various image compression algorithms like BTC, DCT, DWT, DTCWT, SPIHT and EZW. The performance is evaluated in terms of coding efficiency, memory usage, image quality and quantity. Block Truncation Coding and Discrete Cosine Transform compression methods are described in more detail.
Near Reversible Data Hiding Scheme for images using DCTIJERA Editor
This document presents a near-reversible data hiding scheme for images using discrete cosine transform (DCT). In the proposed scheme, data is embedded in the non-zero AC coefficients of DCT blocks in a way that minimizes modifications to the original coefficients, improving visual quality. During embedding, two mathematical functions are used to modify coefficients by amounts closer to their original values compared to other methods. Experimental results on test images show the proposed scheme achieves better visual quality than existing schemes while maintaining data hiding capacity and reversibility.
Comparative Study between DCT and Wavelet Transform Based Image Compression A...IOSR Journals
This document compares DCT and wavelet transform based image compression algorithms. It finds that wavelet transforms provide better compression ratios and lower mean square errors than DCT. As the level of the wavelet transform increases, the compression ratio increases while the mean square error initially decreases for wavelet levels 1-3. While DCT has faster encoding, it produces blocking artifacts, whereas wavelet transforms maintain good visual quality at higher compression ratios by considering correlations across blocks. Overall, the study shows that wavelet transforms enable higher compression with better visual quality than DCT.
SVD Based Robust Digital Watermarking For Still Images Using Wavelet Transform cscpconf
This paper aims at developing a hybrid image watermarking algorithm which satisfies both
imperceptibility and robustness requirements. In order to achieve our objectives we have used
singular values of Wavelet Transformation’s HL and LH sub bands to embed watermark.
Further to increase and control the strength of the watermark, we use a scale factor. An optimal
watermark embedding method is developed to achieve minimum watermarking distortion. A
secret embedding key is designed to securely embed the fragile watermarks so that the new
method is robust to counterfeiting, even when the malicious attackers are fully aware of the
watermark embedding algorithm. Experimental results are provided in terms of Peak signal to
noise ratio (PSNR), Normalized cross correlation (NCC) and gain factor to demonstrate the
effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Image operations such as JPEG compression from
malicious image attacks and, thus, can be used for semi-fragile watermarking
A Novel DWT-CT approach in Digital Watermarking using PSOrahulmonikasharma
The importance of watermarking is dramatically enhanced due to the promising technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), Data analysis, and automation of identification in many sectors. Due to these reasons, systems are inter-connected through networking and internet and huge amounts of information is generated, distributed and transmitted over the World Wide Web. Thus authentication of the information is a challenging task. The algorithm developed for the watermarking needs to be robust against various attack such as salt & peppers, filtering, compression and cropping etc. This paper focuses on the robustness of the algorithm by using a hybrid approach of two transforms such as Contourlet, Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). Also, the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is used to optimize the embedding strength factor. The proposed digital watermarking algorithm has been tested against common types of image attacks. Experiment results for the proposed algorithm gives better performance by using similarity metrics such as NCC (Normalized Cross Correlation value) and PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio).
A Blind Multiple Watermarks based on Human Visual Characteristics IJECEIAES
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a multiple watermark embedding scheme based on human visual characteristics. The scheme embeds two watermarks in the luminance and chrominance blue components of an image. It uses Arnold scrambling to increase security, and embeds watermarks in the singular value decomposition domain by modifying coefficients based on a threshold. The proposed scheme is evaluated based on imperceptibility using SSIM and robustness using normalized cross-correlation and bit error rate. Experimental results show the scheme provides improved invisibility and resistance to various attacks.
A Novel and Robust Wavelet based Super Resolution Reconstruction of Low Resol...CSCJournals
High Resolution images can be reconstructed from several blurred, noisy and aliased low resolution images using a computational process know as super resolution reconstruction. Super resolution reconstruction is the process of combining several low resolution images into a single higher resolution image. In this paper we concentrate on a special case of super resolution problem where the wrap is composed of pure translation and rotation, the blur is space invariant and the noise is additive white Gaussian noise. Super resolution reconstruction consists of registration, restoration and interpolation phases. Once the Low resolution image are registered with respect to a reference frame then wavelet based restoration is performed to remove the blur and noise from the images, finally the images are interpolated using adaptive interpolation. We are proposing an efficient wavelet based denoising with adaptive interpolation for super resolution reconstruction. Under this frame work, the low resolution images are decomposed into many levels to obtain different frequency bands. Then our proposed novel soft thresholding technique is used to remove the noisy coefficients, by fixing optimum threshold value. In order to obtain an image of higher resolution we have proposed an adaptive interpolation technique. Our proposed wavelet based denoising with adaptive interpolation for super resolution reconstruction preserves the edges as well as smoothens the image without introducing artifacts. Experimental results show that the proposed approach has succeeded in obtaining a high-resolution image with a high PSNR, ISNR ratio and a good visual quality.
This document proposes an enhanced adaptive data hiding technique in the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) domain. It begins with background information on DWT and quantization techniques like uniform and adaptive quantization. It then describes how data can be embedded in the non-zero DWT coefficients after adaptive quantization. Specifically, it embeds secret data by modifying the quantized DWT coefficients in a way that minimizes distortion to maintain good visual quality of the cover image. The goal is to improve data hiding capacity while preserving the quality of the cover image as measured by metrics like peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and the human visual system (HVS).
A CONTENT BASED WATERMARKING SCHEME USING RADIAL SYMMETRY TRANSFORM AND SINGU...cscpconf
The Watermarking techniques represent actually a very important issue in digital multimedia
content distribution. To protect digital multimedia content we embed an invisible watermark
into images which facilitate the detection of different manipulations, duplication, illegitimate
distributions of these images. In this paper we present an approach to embedding invisible
watermarks into color images using a robust transform of images that is the Radial symmetry
transform. The watermark is inserted in blocs of eight pixels large of the blue channel using the
Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of these blocs and those of the radial symmetry transform.
The insertion in the blue channel is justified when we know that many works states that the
human visual system is less sensible to perturbation in the blue channel of the image. Results
obtained after tests show that the imperceptibility of the watermark using this approach is good
and its robustness face to different attacks leads to think that the proposed approach is a very
promising one.
DWT-DCT-SVD Based Semi Blind Image Watermarking Using Middle Frequency BandIOSR Journals
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a semi-blind image watermarking technique using discrete wavelet transform (DWT), discrete cosine transform (DCT), and singular value decomposition (SVD). The technique embeds a watermark in the middle frequency band of the DWT domain of a host image. It modifies the singular values of the DCT coefficients of the middle frequency band using singular values of the DCT transformed watermark. The watermark can then be extracted from the watermarked image using inverse processes. The technique was tested on various attacks and showed robustness, with correlation values between the extracted and original watermarks ranging from 0.5308 to 0.9665 and PSNR values indicating impercept
IRJET- An Improved Technique for Hiding Secret Image on Colour Images usi...IRJET Journal
This document presents a hybrid steganography technique that embeds a secret image into a cover image using discrete wavelet transform (DWT), discrete cosine transform (DCT), and singular value decomposition (SVD). The cover image is decomposed using DWT and its high frequency components are replaced with the secret image, which is first decomposed using SVD and DCT. Experimental results show correlation coefficients above 0.999 when extracting the secret image, indicating high quality extraction. The technique provides improved steganography by embedding the secret image in the visually insensitive high frequency components of the cover image.
Performance comparison of hybrid wavelet transforms formed using dct, walsh, ...ijcsit
1. The document discusses a proposed watermarking method using hybrid wavelet transforms and singular value decomposition (SVD).
2. Hybrid wavelet transforms are generated from combinations of discrete cosine transform (DCT), Walsh, Haar, and discrete Kekre transform (DKT). DCT is tested as both the global and local component of the hybrid transform.
3. SVD is applied to the watermark before embedding in the mid-frequency coefficients of the hybrid wavelet transformed host image.
4. The method is tested against various attacks including compression, cropping, noise addition, and resizing. Using DCT as the global component is found to be more robust, particularly against compression attacks.
A Novel Algorithm for Watermarking and Image Encryption cscpconf
Digital watermarking is a method of copyright protection of audio, images, video and text. We
propose a new robust watermarking technique based on contourlet transform and singular value
decomposition. The paper also proposes a novel encryption algorithm to store a signed double
matrix as an RGB image. The entropy of the watermarked image and correlation coefficient of
extracted watermark image is very close to ideal values, proving the correctness of proposed
algorithm. Also experimental results show resiliency of the scheme against large blurring attack
like mean and gaussian filtering, linear filtering (high pass and low pass filtering) , non-linear
filtering (median filtering), addition of a constant offset to the pixel values and local exchange of pixels .Thus proving the security, effectiveness and robustness of the proposed watermarking algorithm.
SECURED COLOR IMAGE WATERMARKING TECHNIQUE IN DWT-DCT DOMAIN ijcseit
The multilayer secured DWT-DCT and YIQ color space based image watermarking technique with
robustness and better correlation is presented here. The security levels are increased by using multiple pn
sequences, Arnold scrambling, DWT domain, DCT domain and color space conversions. Peak signal to
noise ratio and Normalized correlations are used as measurement metrics. The 512x512 sized color images
with different histograms are used for testing and watermark of size 64x64 is embedded in HL region of
DWT and 4x4 DCT is used. ‘Haar’ wavelet is used for decomposition and direct flexing factor is used. We
got PSNR value is 63.9988 for flexing factor k=1 for Lena image and the maximum NC 0.9781 for flexing
factor k=4 in Q color space. The comparative performance in Y, I and Q color space is presented. The
technique is robust for different attacks like scaling, compression, rotation etc.
EFFICIENT IMAGE COMPRESSION USING LAPLACIAN PYRAMIDAL FILTERS FOR EDGE IMAGESijcnac
This project presents a new image compression technique for the coding of retinal and
fingerprint images. Retinal images are used to detect diseases like diabetes or
hypertension. Fingerprint images are used for the security purpose. In this work, the
contourlet transform of the retinal and fingerprint image is taken first. The coefficients of
the contourlet transform are quantized using adaptive multistage vector quantization
scheme. The number of code vectors in the adaptive vector quantization scheme depends
on the dynamic range of the input image.
4 ijaems jun-2015-5-hybrid algorithmic approach for medical image compression...INFOGAIN PUBLICATION
As medical imaging facilities move towards complete filmless imaging and also generate a large volume of image data through various advance medical modalities, the ability to store, share and transfer images on a cloud-based system is essential for maximizing efficiencies. The major issue that arises in teleradiology is the difficulty of transmitting large volume of medical data with relatively low bandwidth. Image compression techniques have increased the viability by reducing the bandwidth requirement and cost-effective delivery of medical images for primary diagnosis.Wavelet transformation is widely used in the fields of image compression because they allow analysis of images at various levels of resolution and good characteristics. The algorithm what is discussed in this paper employs wavelet toolbox of MATLAB. Multilevel decomposition of the original image is performed by using Haar wavelet transform and then image is quantified and coded based on Huffman technique. The wavelet packet has been applied for reconstruction of the compressed image. The simulation results show that the algorithm has excellent effects in the image reconstruction and better compression ratio and also study shows that valuable in medical image compression on cloud platform.
4 ijaems jun-2015-5-hybrid algorithmic approach for medical image compression...INFOGAIN PUBLICATION
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a hybrid algorithm for medical image compression using discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and Huffman coding techniques. The algorithm performs multilevel decomposition of medical images using DWT, quantizes the coefficients, assigns Huffman codes, and compresses the images. Simulation results on test medical images showed that the algorithm achieved excellent reconstruction quality with better compression ratios compared to other techniques. The algorithm is well-suited for compressing and transmitting large volumes of medical images over cloud platforms.
A systematic image compression in the combination of linear vector quantisati...eSAT Publishing House
1) The document presents a method for image compression that combines linear vector quantization and discrete wavelet transform.
2) Linear vector quantization is used to generate codebooks and encode image blocks, achieving better PSNR and MSE than self-organizing maps.
3) The encoded blocks are then subjected to discrete wavelet transform. Low-low subbands are stored for reconstruction while other subbands are discarded.
4) Experimental results show the proposed method achieves higher PSNR and lower MSE than existing techniques, preserving both texture and edge information.
This document discusses a proposed approach for multi-focus image fusion using a discrete cosine wavelet sharpness criterion. Multi-focus image fusion combines information from multiple images of the same scene to produce an "all-in-focus" image. The proposed approach uses a discrete cosine transform to calculate sharpness values for sub-blocks of the input images and selects the sharpest sub-blocks to include in the fused image. Experimental results on images of a clock, bottle, and book show the discrete cosine wavelet criterion produces fused images with higher quality than a bilateral gradient-based sharpness criterion, as measured by mutual information metrics.
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This document presents a new technique for enhancing the contrast of low-contrast satellite images using discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and singular value decomposition (SVD). It begins with an abstract and introduction describing the technique. The technique uses DWT to decompose an input satellite image into frequency subbands, and SVD to estimate the singular value matrix of the low-low subband. The singular values are modified to enhance contrast before reconstructing the final image. The proposed DWT-SVD technique is compared to general histogram equalization (GHE) and singular value equalization (SVE), with results suggesting it outperforms these methods both visually and quantitatively. The document also discusses using fast Fourier transform and bi-log
Comparison of Different Methods for Fusion of Multimodal Medical ImagesIRJET Journal
This document compares different methods for fusing multimodal medical images, including PCA, DCT, SWT, and DWT. It provides an overview of each method, including formulations, process flow diagrams, algorithms, and advantages/disadvantages. PCA uses eigenvectors to reveal internal data structure and remove redundancy. DCT expresses image blocks as sums of cosine functions. SWT is a translation-invariant modification of DWT that does not decimate coefficients. DWT decomposes images into coarse and detailed frequency subbands using wavelet transforms. The document reviews each method for fusing medical images from different modalities to extract complementary information.
This document compares DCT and wavelet transform based image compression algorithms. It finds that wavelet transforms provide better compression ratios and lower mean square errors than DCT. As the level of the wavelet transform increases, the compression ratio increases while the mean square error initially decreases for wavelet levels 1-3. While DCT has faster encoding, it produces blocking artifacts, whereas wavelet transforms maintain good visual quality at higher compression ratios by considering correlations across blocks. Overall, the study shows that wavelet transforms enable higher compression with better visual quality than DCT.
International journal of signal and image processing issues vol 2015 - no 1...sophiabelthome
This document discusses a method for embedding a binary watermark image into a digital video using a hybrid of three transforms: discrete cosine transform (DCT), discrete wavelet transform (DWT), and singular value decomposition (SVD). The method first applies DCT to frames of the video, then applies three-level DWT to the transformed frames. SVD is then applied to both the transformed video frames and the watermark image. The watermark is embedded by modifying coefficients of the video based on the SVD results. PSNR, MSE, and correlation are used to evaluate the quality and robustness of the watermarked video.
Improved anti-noise attack ability of image encryption algorithm using de-noi...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Information security is considered as one of the important issues in the information age used to preserve the secret information through out transmissions in practical applications. With regard to image encryption, a lot of schemes related to information security were applied. Such approaches might be categorized into 2 domains; domain frequency and domain spatial. The presented work develops an encryption technique on the basis of conventional watermarking system with the use of singular value decomposition (SVD), discrete cosine transform (DCT), and discrete wavelet transform (DWT) together, the suggested DWT-DCT-SVD method has high robustness in comparison to the other conventional approaches and enhanced approach for having high robustness against Gaussian noise attacks with using denoising approach according to DWT. MSE in addition to the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) specified the performance measures which are the base of this study’s results, as they are showing that the algorithm utilized in this study has high robustness against Gaussian noise attacks.
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SECURE WATERMARKING TECHNIQUE FOR MEDICAL IMAGES WITH VISUAL EVALUATION
1. Signal & Image Processing : An International Journal (SIPIJ) Vol.9, No.1, February 2018
DOI : 10.5121/sipij.2018.9101 1
SECURE WATERMARKING TECHNIQUE FOR
MEDICAL IMAGES WITH VISUAL EVALUATION
Majdi Al-qdah
Department of Computer Engineering, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, KSA
ABSTRACT
This paper presents a hybrid watermarking technique for medical images. The method uses a combination
of three transforms: Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), and singular
value decomposition (SVD). Then, the paper discusses the results of applying the combined method on
different medical images from eight patients. The images were watermarked with a small watermark image
representing the patients' medical data. The visual quality of the watermarked images (before and after
attacks) was analyzed using five quality metrics: PSNR, WSNR, PSNR-HVS-M, PSNR-HVS, and MSSIM.
The first four metrics' average values of the watermarked medical images before attacks were
approximately 32 db, 35 db, 42 db, and 40 db respectively; while the MSSM index indicated a similarity
between the original and watermarked images of more than 97%. However, the metric values decreased
significantly after attacking the images with various operations even though the watermark image could be
retrieved after almost all attacks. In brief, the initial results indicate that watermarking medical images
with patients' data does not significantly affect their visual quality and they can still be used by medical
staff.
KEYWORDS
Transforms, Watermarking, medical images, visual metrics
1. INTRODUCTION
Data hiding has increasingly become an important tool in authentication of images and protection
of rightful owners copyright. Also, there is an increasing need to store and transfer patients'
medical images over the Internet and other computer networks for sharing among medical staff in
medical institutions all over the world. Image watermarking techniques that hides important
details inside cover images can be divided into two broad domains: spatial domain and frequency
domain [1, 2]. Various medical images based watermarking schemes have been proposed in
literature [3,4,5]. Three of the most important frequency watermarking methods are the discrete
cosine transform (DCT), discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and Singular Value Decomposition
(SVD). Many researchers have used a hybrid of two or more transforms in order to compensate
for the shortcomings of various transforms.
There are many examples of spatial domain techniques such as LSB substitution, spread
spectrum, and patchwork. Lin et al. [6] proposed a spatial watermarking methods where the
watermark logo is fused with noise bits first, and then XORed with the feature value of the image
by 1/T rate forward error correction (FEC), where T is the times of data redundancy. The
watermark bits are extracted by majority voting.
Rosiyadi et al.[7] proposed a robust hybrid watermarking method based on DCT and SVD. The
DCT is applied on the host image using the zigzag space-filling curve (SFC) for the DCT
coefficients and then the SVD is applied on the DCT coefficients. Horng et al. [8] proposed a
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robust adaptive watermarking method based on DCT, SVD and Genetic Algorithm (GA). The
host image luminance masking is used and the mask of each sub-band area is transformed into
frequency domain. Subsequently, the watermark image is embedded by modifying the singular
values of DCT-transformed host image with singular values of mask coefficients of host image
and the control parameter of DCT-transformed watermark image using GA. Singh et al. [9]
proposed a robust hybrid watermarking technique using DWT, DCT, and SVD. First, the host
image into first decomposed by DWT and the Low frequency band (LL) and watermark image
are transformed using DCT and SVD. Then the S vector of watermark image is embedded in the
S component of the host image and the watermarked image is generated by inverse SVD on
modified S vector and original U, V vectors followed by inverse DCT and inverse DWT.
2. METHODOLOGY
The following sections will give details of the used watermarking algorithm and evaluation
metrics.
2.1. Watermarking algorithms
The designed and implemented algorithm is a combination of three frequency domain techniques:
discrete wavelet transform (DWT), discrete cosine transform (DCT), and singular value
decomposition (SVD). DWT decomposes an image into frequency channels of constant
bandwidth on a logarithmic scale by separating an image into a set of four non-overlapping multi-
resolution sub bands denoted as lower resolution approximation image (LL), horizontal (HL),
vertical (LH) and diagonal (HH) with the availability of multiple scale wavelet decomposition.
The watermark is usually embedded into the high frequency detail sub-bands (HL, LH and HH
sub-band) because the human visual system (HVS) is sensitive to the low-frequency LL part of
the image. We can usually embed sensitive data such as medical information in higher level sub-
bands since the detail levels carry most of the energy of the image [10]. DWT achieves higher
robustness since it has the characteristics of space frequency localization, multi-resolution
representation, multi-scale analysis, adaptability and linear complexity [11].
Also, DCT has a very good energy compaction property. It separates the image into different
low, high, and middle frequency coefficients [12]. The watermark is embedded in the middle
frequency band that gives additional resistance to the lossy compression techniques with less
modification of the cover image. The DCT coefficients D(i, j) matrix of an image (N x M) with
pixel intensity I(x, y) are obtained as follows:
SVD of a rectangular matrix is a decomposition of the form
Where is a M x N matrix, U and V are orthonormal matrices, and S is a diagonal matrix
comprised of singular values of . The singular values are
unique values that appear in descending order along the main diagonal of S. They are obtained
by taking the square root of the Eigen values of and The U, V are not unique. In
the Singular Value Decomposition, the slight variations of singular values do not affect the visual
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perception of the cover image, which achieves better quality of the watermarked image and better
robustness against attacks. Also, singular values represent the intrinsic algebraic image properties
[12].
Figure 1 shows the approach taken in embedding the patients' data into a cover medical image;
First, DCT is applied on the LL component of the DWT transformed cover image; SVD is applied
to the DCT coefficients. Then, the watermark is DCT transformed and the singular values of the
SVD transformed coefficients are embedded in the singular values of the DWT transformed
coefficients of the cover image. Figure 2 shows the extraction approach of the patient's image
data from the watermarked image. The watermarked images is DWT and DCT transformed then
SVD is applied to the DCT coefficients; the watermark is extracted from the LL sub band of
DWT. For an added security, the watermark image can be encrypted before embedding it in the
cover image.
Figure1. Embedding process
Figure 2. Extraction process
2.2. Evaluation metrics
Four visual metrics (WSNR, MSSIM, PSNR-HVS-M, and PSNR-HVS) described by
Ponomarenko et. al. [13] are used for comparing the watermarked images with their originals.
Traditionally, the efficiency of an image processing operation ; i.e. lossy compression is usually
analyzed in terms of rate-distortion curves. These curves represent dependencies of PSNR (or
MSE) on bits per pixel (bpp) or compression ratio (CR) where PSNR and MSE are calculated for
some original image and the corresponding processed image.
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where denote the values of the original and processed pixels and N, M denote an image size
[14]. In order to obtain a high imperceptibility of the watermarked image, it is desirable to have a
high value of PSNR; meaning a lesser value of MSE.
Also, usually the similarity and differences between an original image and a processed image is
measured by the Normalized Correlation (NC). Its value is generally 0 to 1. Ideally it should be 1
but a value 0.7 or higher is usually acceptable [15].
where denote the values of the original and processed pixels and X, Y denote an image size.
Two different distorted images with the same PSNR value with respect to the same original image
may give significantly different visual impact. It is well known that conventional quality metrics,
such as MSE, SNR and PSNR do not always correlate with image visual quality [17,18].
Therefore, the choice of a proper visual quality metric for analysis and comparisons is always
problematic since the human visual system (HVS) is nonlinear and it is very sensitive to contrast
changes and to noise [19]. Many studies have confirmed that the HVS is more sensitive to low
frequency distortions rather than high frequency components. The best performance was achieved
by the metrics PSNR-HVS-M, PSNR-HVS, and WSNR [14] especially if there is noise or the
images are to be compressed. HVS-based models are the result of trade-off between
computational feasibility and accuracy of the model. HVS-based models can be classified into
two categories: neurobiological models and models based on the psychophysical properties of
human vision. Psychophysical HVS-based models are implemented in a sequential process that
includes luminance masking, colour perception analysis, frequency selection, and contrast
sensitivity [19].
Recently, processing of images is done using perceptual image quality assessment methods,
which attempt to simulate the functionality of the relevant early human visual system (HVS)
components. These methods usually involve a pre-processing process that may include image
alignment, point-wise nonlinear transform, low-pass filtering that simulates eye optics, and color
space transformation, a channel decomposition process that transforms the image signals into
different spatial frequency as well as orientation selective subbands, an error normalization
process that weights the error signal in each subband by incorporating the variation of visual
sensitivity in different subbands, and the variation of visual error sensitivity caused by intra- or
inter-channel neighbouring transform coefficients, and an error pooling process that combines the
error signals in different subbands into a single quality/distortion value [20].
PSNR-HVS takes into account the HVS properties such as sensitivity to contrast change and
sensitivity to low frequency distortions; while the PSNR-HVSM takes into account the contrast
sensitivity function (CSF). Similar to PSNR and MSE, the visual quality metrics PSNR-HVS and
PSNR-HVSM can be determined:
where I,J denote image size, K=1 [(I-7)(J-7)64] , are DCT coefficients of 8x8 image
block for which the coordinates of its left upper corner are equal to i and j, Xij e are the DCT
coefficients of the corresponding block in the original image, and is the matrix of
correcting factors [21].
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The Weighted Signal to Noise Ratio (WSNR) is a noise metric where the difference (residual)
between the original and the processed images must be noise. (WSNR) uses a Contrast Sensitivity
Function (CSF) given by the following:
where is a radial angular frequency
The WSNR between an original image (x) and a processed image (y) is:
The structural similarity index (SSIM) measures the similarity between two images [19]. SSIM
compares two images using information about luminous, contrast and structure. SSIM metric is
calculated on various windows of an image. The measure between two windows x and y of
common size N×N is given as follows:
MSSIM (Multi-Scale Structural Similarity) is a multi-scale extension of a SSIM metric. MSSIM
[22] is introduced to incorporate the variations of viewing conditions to the previous single-scale
SSIM measure. MSSIM is known as mean structural similarity index metric [22] and it is given
by:
where M is the correlation between two images x, y
Correlation is a similarity measure between two functions. The correlation measure between two
functions x(x,y) and s(x,y) in discrete form is defined as:
Where is the complex conjugate, x=0, 1,…….., M-1 and y=0, 1,……, N-1
3. RESULTS
Figure 3 shows the eight medical cover images of size [512×512] and the patients' data
watermark image of size [256×256] selected for the experiment. The medical images contain
medical information based on the characteristics of each image and the purpose of its capture.
The medical images reveal characteristics of the bones, tissues, vessels, nerves....etc. For example,
the finger print image shows the shape and size of the prints while the ultrasound image shows the size and
shape of the fetes. Thus, embedding a watermark image inside a medical cover image should
preserve the existing medical information in the cover medical image: the unique pattern of the
fingerprint, vessels and optical nerves inside the retina, bone fracture in the wrist, size and
development signs of the fetus, shape, the position of the torn ligament, and sliced layers and soft
tissue of the human skull. The patients' personal details can be embedded in the captured medical
image in textual or image format and saved in one file. The patients' personal details (watermark)
are embedded by the earlier discussed combined method of DWT, DCT, and SVD transforms;
while the imperceptivity of the watermarked images is evaluated using PSNR, P-HVS, P-HVS-M,
WSNR, and MSSIM. The metrics measure the imperceptivity of the watermarked images, which
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is an important factor in medical images watermarking. The experiment was run under
MATLAB simulation software.
Retina Broken wrist Fingerprint
Teeth Mammogram Torn ligament
Ultrasound Head
Watermark
Figure 3. Eight cover images and one watermark
The algorithm was evaluated using five quality metrics. Table 1 shows the PSNR, P-HVS, P-
HVS-M, WSNR, and MSSIM metrics among all the watermarked images before any attacks. It
can be observed that the PSNR average value is about 32 db, P-HVS average value is around 35
db, P-HVS-M average value is about 42 db, and the WSNR average value varies from 35 db to 47
db. The MSSIM metric shows that the watermarked images are highly visually similar to the
original images with similarity index values between the original and the watermarked images of
more than 0.97%. Also, it can be observed that there is no significant difference between the
average metric values among the various images; only the WSNR value of the of the Head image
varies from one image to another with approximately 15 db difference between the Fingerprints
image and the Head image; that is mainly due to the characteristics of the two images.
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Table 1. Metric values of the watermarked images with watermark "Copyright"- not attacked
Image PSNR P-HVS P-HVS-M WSNR MSSIM
Fingerprints 32.7049 34.8745 46.2079 47.0602 0.9920
Retina 32.9101 34.8738 40.4924 38.0317 0.9740
Torn Ligament 32.9784 34.8868 42.2467 39.5283 0.9846
Broken Wrist 32.7310 34.9020 40.7815 43.3029 0.9734
Teeth structure 32.7048 34.8898 41.4563 45.4571 0.9793
Ultrasound 33.2059 34.8428 41.3834 37.8052 0.9850
Head 33.3870 35.1103 40.0242 34.3916 0.9770
Mammogram 32.6940 34.8750 41.1925 46.0111 0.9738
To test the robustness, the watermarked image were attacked with various types of attacks.
Tables 2 shows the average values of the same metrics for each image after the watermarked
images are attacked with various operations (Gaussian noise, Salt & Pepper noise, 2D FIR filter,
Cropping, Rotation & Cropping, Weiner filter, Intensity adjustment, Gaussian filter, and
Sharpening). ). It is observed that the numerical values decrease after an attack operation is
performed on the images. Thus, there is a degradation in the quality of the attacked images. The
drop in the numerical values is not significant after the Gaussian Noise, Salt & Pepper Noise, and
2D FIR filter attacks. The PSNR and other HVS metric values are similar among all watermarked
images before and after attacks. The values of PSNR, P-HVS, P-HVS-M, and WSNR stay above
the value of 20 db and the MSSIM metric values remain above 0.82%. On the other hand, there
is a significant decrease in the values after the Cropping, Rotation & Cropping, Weiner Filter,
Intensity adjustment, Gaussian filter, and Sharpening image attack operations. The numerical
values of PSNR, P-HVS, P-HVS-M, and WSNR drop to less than 6 db while the MSSIM
similarity index drops to 10% approximately. The watermark images can be clearly recovered
after the Gaussian noise, Salt & Pepper noise, Intensity adjustment, Gaussian filter, and
Sharpening attacks; but the recovered watermarks are distorted after the 2D FIR filter, Rotation &
Cropping, and Weiner filter attacks. Even though the images are apparently distinguishable after
those attacks the metric values drop significantly. Finally, there is no correlation between the
drop in the metric values and the recovery of the watermark; for example, the P-HVS, P-HVS-M,
and the WSNR values drop greatly after the sharpening attack but the watermark is fully
recovered.
Table 2. Average metric values of all eight watermarked images after some attacks
Attack PSNR P-HVS P-HVS-M WSNR MSSIM
No attack 32.9878 34.9307 41.7779 40.1183 0.9803
Gaussian Noise 19.9203 19.9790 22.6201 27.0916 0.8212
Salt & Pepper Noise 24.6345 24.8935 27.9674 32.1470 0.9304
2D FIR filter 25.3646 26.6690 30.0951 35.1960 0.9618
Cropping 13.7111 9.5336 9.5670 8.1109 0.7391
Rotation & Cropping 5.9136 1.7664 1.7862 0.2728 0.0982
Weiner Filter 5.9212 1.7732 1.7950 0.2801 0.1029
Intensity adjustment 5.9431 1.7932 1.8150 0.3004 0.1113
Gaussian filter 5.9212 1.7743 1.7950 0.2802 0.1030
Sharpening 5.9214 1.7733 1.7951 0.2801 0.1031
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The limitation of this research is that the algorithms cannot determine how much of medical
information is lost after watermarking medical images or even after attacking the images. Only
medical doctors can decide the important segments of a medical image that are affected by
watermarking or by attacking. Also, the effects can vary from one image to another. Finally,
recovering the watermark after some attacks does not necessarily indicate that all medical
information is preserved.
4. CONCLUSIONS
The results of this limited research show that watermarking medical images with a watermark of
patients' personal details does not significantly affect the visual quality of the original medical
images; and they can be utilized for their medical purpose. It was experimentally quantitatively
demonstrated using Human Visual System (HVS) metrics that the watermarked medical images
were similar to their originals. Also, choosing the appropriate watermarking algorithm is essential
to obtain the robustness, imperceptivity and security needed to protect the patients' personal data
inside a medical image and there are many transform domain algorithms that are available and
can be utilized to preserve the characteristics of the original images. Artificial intelligence
methods will be used in the future to classify the effectiveness of new algorithms.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to acknowledge financial support of this work from the Deanship of
Scientific Research (DSR), University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, under grant no.
S/0180/1438
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AUTHOR
Dr. Majdi is currently an assistant professor in department of computer engineering at the University of
Tabuk Saudi Arabia. His research interests include data hiding, cryptography, medical imaging, and other
various other current engineering topics.