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A Image Copyright Protection Method Using Zero-Watermark by Blockchain and IPFS
Tao Chen1, Zhao Qiu1,*, Gengquan Xie1, Lin Yuan1, Shaohua Duan1, Hao Guo1, Dahao Fu1, Hancheng Huang2
1 Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, China
2 University college London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
* Corresponding Author: Zhao Qiu. Email:
Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection 2021, 3(3), 131-142. https://doi.org/10.32604/jihpp.2021.026606
Received 31 December 2021; Accepted 13 January 2022; Issue published 07 February 2022
Abstract
Behind the popularity of multimedia technology, the dispute over
image copyright is getting worse. In the digital watermark prevention technology
for copyright infringement, watermark technology is considered to be an
important technology to overcome data protection problems and verify the
relationship between data ownership. Among the many digital watermarking
technologies, zero watermarking technology has been favored in recent years.
However, the existing zero watermark technology in the implementation process
often needs a trusted third party to store watermarks, which may make the data
too central, data storage security is low and copyright registration costs are too
high, which creates a rare problem. The decentivization and information cannot
be tampered of blockchain technology’s nature find new methods for image
copyright protection. This paper studies the role of zero watermark algorithm in
the image copyright and its complete storage and certification scheme, proposes
a zero watermark image protection framework based on blockchain, and builds a
system according to the framework. Combined with blockchain and zero
watermarking technology, the framework uses inter IPFS (Inter Planetary File
System) to solve the problem of blockchain efficient storage and sharing of large
files. In addition, the application of user copyright information, image image
query and image trading in the system are realized based on smart contracts,
which solves the problem of lack of trusted third parties. Experiments show that
the scheme is feasible and robust to various attacks.
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Cite This Article
T. Chen, Z. Qiu, G. Xie, L. Yuan, S. Duan
et al., "A image copyright protection method using zero-watermark by blockchain and ipfs,"
Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, vol. 3, no.3, pp. 131–142, 2021.