Abstract

In this paper, a digital image watermarking technique combining Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Discrete Fractional Fourier Transform (DFRFT) has been investigated. This is a non-blind watermarking technique that exploits multi-resolution sub-band decomposition property of DWT and applies DFRFT on selected sub-bands in DWT-transformed image. The performance of this algorithm under various attacks is investigated and compared with DFRFT and DWT-based algorithms. The simulation results show that proposed watermarking technique offers better robustness to all attacks as compared to DWT-based scheme whereas either comparable or better than DFRFT-based technique for all attacks except median filtering, AWGN and JPEG compression attacks.

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