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초록

This paper presents a novel watermarking scheme for au- thentication of digital color images in social networks. The procedure consists of the embedding of a binary watermark image, containing the owner information, into the image to be authenticated. In order to minimize the artifacts in the host image the process is carried out in the wavelets do- main. Concretely, the watermark embedding is performed in the HL4 and LH4 sub-band coefficients of the red, green and blue channels of the original image, based on an optimal channel selection quantization technique. To ensure a high robustness to tampering and malicious attacks a key-based pixel shuffling mechanism is further used. The reverse pro- cess is likewise identified for the extraction of the watermark from the authenticated image. Both embedding and extraction procedures are benchmarked on diverse color images and under the effects of different types of attacks, including geometric, non-geometric, and JPEG compression transfor- mations. The proposed scheme proves to support impercep-tible watermarking, while also showing a high resiliency to common image processing operations.

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