In this paper, a watermark hiding scheme based on Visual Cryptography and Discrete Wavelet Transform is proposed. The proposed method modifies the codebook of related works, and utilizes statistical average to offer better security. The proposed method also reduces the size of the codebook and probability of false positives when compared to the existing works. Experimental results prove that the scheme is also robust to wide range of attacks

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