Robust color image watermarking using geometric invariant quaternion polar harmonic transform

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Yang, Hong Ying ^a   Wang, Xiang Yang ^a   Niu, Pan Pan ^a   Wang, Ai Long ^a  

^a LIAONING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Color image watermarking; Geometric invariance; Imperceptibility; Quaternion polar harmonic transform; Robustness

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; GEOMETRY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); WATERMARKING;

COLOR IMAGE WATERMARKING; GEOMETRIC INVARIANCE; IMPERCEPTIBILITY; INVARIANT PROPERTIES; POLAR HARMONIC TRANSFORMS; ROBUST IMAGE WATERMARKING; ROTATION , SCALING , AND TRANSLATIONS; WATERMARKING SCHEMES;

IMAGE WATERMARKING;

EID: 84923325769     PISSN: 15516857     EISSN: 15516865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2700299     Document Type: Article

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