Robust Watermarking Algorithm against the Geometric Attacks based on Non-Subsampled Shearlet Transform and Harris-Laplace Detector

Abstract

With the rapid spread of network information, the information maintenance has become the focus of information security on networks. Digital watermarking is one of the effective methods to protect information security, achieve anticounterfeiting traceability, and protect copyright, and it is an important branch of information hiding technology. However, one of the most challenging questions of digital watermarking is how to present strong robustness in geometric attacks. Nowadays, most watermarking algorithms are relatively weak robustness against geometric attacks. A robust watermarking algorithm against geometric attacks based on the non-subsampled shearlet transform and the Harris-Laplace detector is proposed. The host image is decomposed into subbands with different directions by the shearlet transform, and the Harris-Laplace detector is utilized to obtain the feature regions. Then, the nonoverlapping regions with strong robustness are selected to embed watermark by the fuzzy c-means cluster algorithm. The experimental results indicate that the proposed watermarking scheme can well resist geometric attacks.