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    <title>Image watermarking optimization algorithms in transform domains and feature regions</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Hai, Tao</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Kuantan, Pahang</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>UMP</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2012</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>xvii, 155 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. + 1 CD-ROM</extent>
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  <abstract>Digital  watermarking  techniques  have  been  explored  considerably  since  its  first appearance  in  the  1990s.  The  achieved  tradeoffs  from  these  techniques  between imperceptibility  and  robustness  are  controversial.  To  solve  this  problem,  this  study proposes  the  application  of  artificial  intelligent  techniques  into  digital  watermarking by using discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and singular value decomposition (SVD). To  protect  the  copyright  information  of  digital  images,  the  original  image  is decomposed  according  to  two-dimensional  discrete  wavelet  transform.  Subsequently the preprocessed watermark  with  an  affined  scrambling  transform  is  embedded  into the vertical subband (HLm) coefficients  in wavelet domain without compromising the quality  of  the  image.  The  scaling  factors  are  trained  with  the  assistance  of  Particle Swarm  Optimization  (PSO).  A  new  algorithmic  framework  is  used  to  forecast feasibility  of  hypothesized  watermarked  images.  In  addition,  the  novelty  is  to associate  the  Hybrid  Particle  Swarm  Optimization  (HPSO),  instead  of  a  single optimization, as a model with SVD. To embed and extract the watermark, the singular values of the blocked host image are modified according to the watermark and scaling factors.  A  series  of  training  patterns  are  constructed by employing  between  two images.  Moreover,  the  work  takes  accomplishing  maximum  robustness  and transparency  into  consideration.  HPSO  method  is  used  to  estimate  the  multiple parameters  involved  in  the  model.  Unfortunately,  watermark  resistance  to  geometric attacks  is  the  most  challenge  work  in  traditional  digital  image  watermarking techniques  which  causes  incorrect  watermark  detection  and  extraction.  Recently,  the strategy  of  researchers  has  introduced  image  watermarking  techniques  using  the invariant  transforms  for  their  rotation  and  scale  invariant  properties.  However,  it suffers  from  local  transformations  which  make  watermarks  difficult  to  recover.  This thesis  will  introduce  a  set  of  content  based  image  watermarking  schemes  which  can resist  both  local  geometric  attacks  and  traditional  signal  processingattacks simultaneously.  These  schemes  follow  a  uniform  framework,  which  is  based  on  the detection  of  feature  points  which  are  commonly  invariant  to  Rotation,  Scaling  and Translation  (RST),  therefore  they  naturally  accommodate  the  framework  of geometrically  robust  image  watermarking.  As  a  result,  it  will  first  introduce  the theories about the feature extraction and the basic principles on how feature points can act  as locating  resynchronization  between  watermark  insertion  and  extraction discussed  in detail.  Subsequently,  it  will  present  several  content-based  watermark embedding  and extraction  methods  which  can  be  directly  implemented  based  on the synchronization scheme.  Further  detailed  watermarking  schemes  which  combine feature regions extraction with counter propagation neural  network-based watermarks synapses memorization  are  then  presented.  The  performance  of  watermarking schemes  based on framework  of  feature  point  shows  the  following  advantages:  (a) Good  imperceptibility.  It  is  obvious  that  the  watermarking  schemes  show  a  little influence on watermark invisibility; (b) Good robustness. The proposed scheme is not only robust against common image processing operations as sharpening, noise adding, and JPEG compression etc, but also robust against the desynchronization attacks such as  rotation,  translation,  scaling,  row  or  column  removal,  cropping,  and  local  random bend etc.</abstract>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">Hai Tao</note>
  <note>Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science)) -- Universiti Malaysia Pahang - 2012</note>
  <note>Bibliography : p. 137-147</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Digital watermarking</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Watermarking</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Data protection</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Computer security</topic>
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  <identifier type="isbn">THE0001929(Local)</identifier>
  <identifier type="uri">http://ecollib.ump.edu.my/3678/</identifier>
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