A Novel Multipurpose Watermarking Scheme Capable of Protecting and Authenticating Images With Tamper Detection and Localisation Abilities
Technologies that fall under the umbrella of Industry 4.0 can be classified into one of its four significant components: cyber-physical systems, the internet of things (IoT), on-demand availability of computer system resources, and cognitive computing. The success of this industrial revolution lies...
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| description | Technologies that fall under the umbrella of Industry 4.0 can be classified into one of its four significant components: cyber-physical systems, the internet of things (IoT), on-demand availability of computer system resources, and cognitive computing. The success of this industrial revolution lies in how well these components can communicate with each other, and work together in finding the most optimised solution for an assigned task. It is achieved by sharing data collected from a network of sensors. This data is communicated via images, videos, and a variety of other signals, attracting unwanted attention of hackers. The protection of such data is therefore pivotal, as is maintaining its integrity. To this end, this paper proposes a novel image watermarking scheme with potential applications in Industry 4.0. The strategy presented is multipurpose; one such purpose is authenticating the transmitted image, another is curtailing the illegal distribution of the image by providing copyright protection. To this end, two new watermarking methods are introduced, one of which is for embedding the robust watermark, and the other is related to the fragile watermark. The robust watermark’s embedding is achieved in the frequency domain, wherein the frequency coefficients are selected using a novel mean-based coefficient selection procedure. Subsequently, the selected coefficients are manipulated in equal proportion to embed the robust watermark. The fragile watermark’s embedding is achieved in the spatial domain, wherein self-generated fragile watermark(s) is embedded by directly altering the pixel bits of the host image. The effective combination of two domains results in a hybrid scheme and attains the vital balance between the watermarking requirements of imperceptibility, security and capacity. Moreover, in the case of tampering, the proposed scheme not only authenticates and provides copyright protection to images but can also detect tampering and localise the tampered regions. An extensive evaluation of the proposed scheme on typical images has proven its superiority over existing state-of-the-art methods. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8ed6f582c7524e7c96fcb67352f038aa2024-12-11T00:01:45ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110856778570010.1109/ACCESS.2022.31989639857940A Novel Multipurpose Watermarking Scheme Capable of Protecting and Authenticating Images With Tamper Detection and Localisation AbilitiesSunpreet Sharma0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3185-6149Ju Jia Zou1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5091-7309Gu Fang2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3723-1665School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, AustraliaSchool of Engineering, Design and Built Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, AustraliaSchool of Engineering, Design and Built Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, AustraliaTechnologies that fall under the umbrella of Industry 4.0 can be classified into one of its four significant components: cyber-physical systems, the internet of things (IoT), on-demand availability of computer system resources, and cognitive computing. The success of this industrial revolution lies in how well these components can communicate with each other, and work together in finding the most optimised solution for an assigned task. It is achieved by sharing data collected from a network of sensors. This data is communicated via images, videos, and a variety of other signals, attracting unwanted attention of hackers. The protection of such data is therefore pivotal, as is maintaining its integrity. To this end, this paper proposes a novel image watermarking scheme with potential applications in Industry 4.0. The strategy presented is multipurpose; one such purpose is authenticating the transmitted image, another is curtailing the illegal distribution of the image by providing copyright protection. To this end, two new watermarking methods are introduced, one of which is for embedding the robust watermark, and the other is related to the fragile watermark. The robust watermark’s embedding is achieved in the frequency domain, wherein the frequency coefficients are selected using a novel mean-based coefficient selection procedure. Subsequently, the selected coefficients are manipulated in equal proportion to embed the robust watermark. The fragile watermark’s embedding is achieved in the spatial domain, wherein self-generated fragile watermark(s) is embedded by directly altering the pixel bits of the host image. The effective combination of two domains results in a hybrid scheme and attains the vital balance between the watermarking requirements of imperceptibility, security and capacity. Moreover, in the case of tampering, the proposed scheme not only authenticates and provides copyright protection to images but can also detect tampering and localise the tampered regions. An extensive evaluation of the proposed scheme on typical images has proven its superiority over existing state-of-the-art methods.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9857940/Image authenticationimage copyright protectioncybersecurityindustry 40image watermarking |
| spellingShingle | Sunpreet Sharma Ju Jia Zou Gu Fang A Novel Multipurpose Watermarking Scheme Capable of Protecting and Authenticating Images With Tamper Detection and Localisation Abilities IEEE Access Image authentication image copyright protection cybersecurity industry 40 image watermarking |
| title | A Novel Multipurpose Watermarking Scheme Capable of Protecting and Authenticating Images With Tamper Detection and Localisation Abilities |
| title_full | A Novel Multipurpose Watermarking Scheme Capable of Protecting and Authenticating Images With Tamper Detection and Localisation Abilities |
| title_fullStr | A Novel Multipurpose Watermarking Scheme Capable of Protecting and Authenticating Images With Tamper Detection and Localisation Abilities |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Novel Multipurpose Watermarking Scheme Capable of Protecting and Authenticating Images With Tamper Detection and Localisation Abilities |
| title_short | A Novel Multipurpose Watermarking Scheme Capable of Protecting and Authenticating Images With Tamper Detection and Localisation Abilities |
| title_sort | novel multipurpose watermarking scheme capable of protecting and authenticating images with tamper detection and localisation abilities |
| topic | Image authentication image copyright protection cybersecurity industry 40 image watermarking |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9857940/ |
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