Daofu Gong1,2, Yan Chen1,2, Haoyu Lu1,*, Zhenyu Li3, Yibing Han1
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.57, No.2, pp. 243-260, 2018, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2018.03781
Abstract To detect and recover random tampering areas, a combined-decision-based self-embedding watermarking scheme is proposed herein. In this scheme, the image is first partitioned into 2×2 size blocks. Next, the high 5 bits of a block’s average value is embedded into its offset block. The tampering type of block is detected by comparing the watermarks of its pre-offset and post-offset blocks. The theoretical analysis and experiments demonstrate that the proposed scheme not only has a lower ratio of false detection but also better performance with regard to avoiding random tampering. More >