A Progressive Image Watermarking Scheme for JPEG2000

In this paper, we propose a binary value based progressive image watermarking approach for digital right protection. First, a new binary valued watermarking method for wavelet domain images are introduced, and then a progressive watermark detecting scheme for Internet environment is introduced. Its performance was evaluated with two types of experiments (1) robustness against image attacks and (2) early watermark detection along with progressive image transmission. Experiment results show that the proposed watermarking scheme has not only excellent robustness and imperceptibility, but also early detection capability to deal with JPEG2000 images.