Image adaptive semi-fragile watermarking scheme based on RDWT-SVD

One of the main properties of semi-fragile image watermarking methods is robustness against lossy compressions, e.g. JPEG conversion. In this paper, robustness of a semi-fragile watermarking scheme based on DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform), coupled with SVD (Singular Value Decomposition), is improved. To achieve this goal a traditional, critically sampled wavelet transform is replaced by a redundant wavelet transform. The proposed approach is compared to the DWT-SVD based watermarking, introduced earlier, and significantly greater robustness under the JPEG compression is presented.