Doaa Sami Khafaga¹, Sarah M. Alhammad^1,*, Amal Magdi², Osama ElKomy², Nabil A. Lashin², Khalid M. Hosny²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.2, pp. 1967-1986, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.040345 - 28 July 2023

Abstract Image authentication techniques have recently received a lot of attention for protecting images against unauthorized access. Due to the wide use of the Internet nowadays, the need to ensure data integrity and authentication increases. Many techniques, such as watermarking and encryption, are used for securing images transmitted via the Internet. The majority of watermarking systems are PC-based, but they are not very portable. Hardware-based watermarking methods need to be developed to accommodate real-time applications and provide portability. This paper presents hybrid data security techniques using a zero watermarking method to provide copyright protection for the… More >

Mingshuai Sheng¹, Jingbing Li^1,2,*, Uzair Aslam Bhatti^1,2,3, Jing Liu⁴, Mengxing Huang^1,5, Yen-Wei Chen⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 293-309, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036438 - 06 February 2023

Abstract Medical images are used as a diagnostic tool, so protecting their confidentiality has long been a topic of study. From this, we propose a Resnet50-DCT-based zero watermarking algorithm for use with medical images. To begin, we use Resnet50, a pre-training network, to draw out the deep features of medical images. Then the deep features are transformed by DCT transform and the perceptual hash function is used to generate the feature vector. The original watermark is chaotic scrambled to get the encrypted watermark, and the watermark information is embedded into the original medical image by XOR… More >

Tao Chen¹, Zhao Qiu^1,*, Gengquan Xie¹, Lin Yuan¹, Shaohua Duan¹, Hao Guo¹, Dahao Fu¹, Hancheng Huang²

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, Vol.3, No.3, pp. 131-142, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jihpp.2021.026606 - 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… More >