WATERMARKING IMAGES USING 2D REPRESENTATIONS OF SELF-INVERTING PERMUTATIONS

Maria Chroni, Angelos Fylakis, Stavros D. Nikolopoulos

2012

Abstract

In this work we propose an efficient and easily implemented codec system, which we named WaterIMAGE, for watermarking images that are intended for uploading on the web and making them public online. An important fact of our system is that it suggests a way in which an integer number can be represented in a two dimensional grid and, thus, since images are two dimensional objects that representation can be efficiently marked on them. In particular, our system uses an efficient technique which is based on a 2D representation of self-inverting permutations and mainly consists of two components: the first component contains an encoding algorithm which encodes an integer w into a self-inverting permutation p∗ and a decoding algorithm which extracts the integer w from p∗, while the second component contains codec algorithms which are responsible for embedding a watermark into an image I, resulting the image Iw, and extract it from Iw. Our system incorporates important properties which allow us to successfully extract the watermark w from the image Iw even if the input image has been compressed with a lossy method and/or rotated. All the system’s algorithms have been developed and tested in JAVA programming environment.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Chroni M., Fylakis A. and D. Nikolopoulos S. (2012). WATERMARKING IMAGES USING 2D REPRESENTATIONS OF SELF-INVERTING PERMUTATIONS . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8565-08-2, pages 380-385. DOI: 10.5220/0003936003800385

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist12,
author={Maria Chroni and Angelos Fylakis and Stavros D. Nikolopoulos},
title={WATERMARKING IMAGES USING 2D REPRESENTATIONS OF SELF-INVERTING PERMUTATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2012},
pages={380-385},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003936003800385},
isbn={978-989-8565-08-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - WATERMARKING IMAGES USING 2D REPRESENTATIONS OF SELF-INVERTING PERMUTATIONS
SN - 978-989-8565-08-2
AU - Chroni M.
AU - Fylakis A.
AU - D. Nikolopoulos S.
PY - 2012
SP - 380
EP - 385
DO - 10.5220/0003936003800385