A Content-based Watermarking Scheme based on Clifford Fourier Transform

Maroua Affes, Malek Sellami Meziou, Yassine Lehiani, Marius Preda, Faouzi Ghorbel

2016

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new watermarking method based on Harris interest points and Fourier Clifford Transform. We employed Harris detector to select robust interest points and to generate some non-overlapped circular interest regions. Each region was transformed into Clifford Fourier domain and the watermark was embedded into the Clifford transform coefficients magnitude. Experimental results show the robustness of the proposed method against JPEG compression.

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Affes M., Meziou M., Lehiani Y., Preda M. and Ghorbel F. (2016). A Content-based Watermarking Scheme based on Clifford Fourier Transform . In Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-175-5, pages 372-378. DOI: 10.5220/0005748403720378


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp16,
author={Maroua Affes and Malek Sellami Meziou and Yassine Lehiani and Marius Preda and Faouzi Ghorbel},
title={A Content-based Watermarking Scheme based on Clifford Fourier Transform},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={372-378},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005748403720378},
isbn={978-989-758-175-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)
TI - A Content-based Watermarking Scheme based on Clifford Fourier Transform
SN - 978-989-758-175-5
AU - Affes M.
AU - Meziou M.
AU - Lehiani Y.
AU - Preda M.
AU - Ghorbel F.
PY - 2016
SP - 372
EP - 378
DO - 10.5220/0005748403720378