Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Based Robust Watermarking Scheme

Digital watermarking is a widely used technique for embedding information into digital media to protect intellectual property rights. However, digital watermarks are vulnerable to various types of malicious attacks. In this paper, we propose an AES-based watermarking scheme to further improve the security and robustness of an existing watermark technique. The proposed scheme involves embedding the original watermark into the host image using a watermarking technique, and then encrypting the embedded watermark using the AES algorithm. The watermarked image is then subjected to a series of attacks and then is decrypted using the same AES algorithm. To assess the performance of the proposed approach in terms of security and robustness, it is implemented and tested on a set of images. The experimental findings demonstrate that, while maintaining a low distortion rate, the proposed technique offers high robustness against various attacks. The proposed AES-based watermarking scheme can be considered as an effective and secure solution for protecting digital watermarks in various applications.