International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 98 - Number 18 |
Year of Publication: 2014 |
Authors: Anurag Mishra, Amita Goel |
10.5120/17285-7784 |
Anurag Mishra, Amita Goel . A Novel Image Watermarking Scheme using Hybrid DWT-DCT-ELM Technique. International Journal of Computer Applications. 98, 18 ( July 2014), 28-33. DOI=10.5120/17285-7784
We propose a novel gray scale image watermarking scheme using hybrid DCT-DWT transform. The low frequency band coefficients are selected and the dataset of size 256*7 prepared using these coefficients is supplied to a newly developed simple layer feed forward network popularly known as Extreme Learning Machine (ELM). The ELM produces a normalized column vector of size 256*1 which is used as watermark sequence to be embedded in the low frequency coefficients. The DWT-DCT hybrid transform is supposed to produce better results for imperceptibility criteria. Five different image processing attacks are carried out over signed images. Watermarks are extracted successfully from signed and attacked images. Time complexity calculation indicates that the watermarking scheme is completely executed within seconds which makes it suitable for real time watermarking applications. .