关键词: 敏感水印, 多级小波系数加权均值, 消息摘要算法5, Logistic映射, 可公开水印

Abstract: Conventional watermarking algorithms usually pay more attention to the visual quality of embedded carrier while ignore the security of watermarking. Although some methods provided watermarking encryption procedures, they usually embed watermarks in fixed positions which are prone to be attacked. The sensitivity of watermarking algorithm based on parameterized wavelet transform is difficult to be applied in practice. To address these problems, a public sensitive watermarking algorithm with weighted multilevel wavelet coefficient mean and quantization was proposed. In the proposed algorithm, firstly the Message Digest Algorithm 5 (MD5) value of cover image, user keys and initial parameters were bound with Logistic map which were used to encrypt watermarks and select wavelet coefficients in different decomposition levels; secondly weights of wavelet coefficients in different levels were estimated by absolute variation means of wavelet coefficients before and after Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) compression, and then weighted multilevel wavelet coefficient mean was adjusted to embed watermark; finally an isolated black point filtering strategy was adopted to enhance the quality of fetched watermark. The experiments show the proposed method has better sensitivities of plaintext image and user keys and still is robust for common image attacks such as image clipping, white noise, JPEG compression, covering and graffiti. The Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) of image after embedding watermarks can reach 45 dB. The embedded watermark is difficult to be tampered or extracted even if all watermarks embedding procedures are published.

Key words: sensitive watermarking, weighted multilevel wavelet coefficient mean, Message Digest Algorithm 5(MD5), Logistic map, public watermarking