International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 60 - Number 11 |
Year of Publication: 2012 |
Authors: Farooq Husain, Ekram Khan, Omar Farooq |
10.5120/9736-4287 |
Farooq Husain, Ekram Khan, Omar Farooq . Digital Image Watermarking using Combined DWT and DFRFT. International Journal of Computer Applications. 60, 11 ( December 2012), 17-25. DOI=10.5120/9736-4287
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.