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Chih-Hung Lin This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.1, Tung-Shih Su2 and Wen-Shyong Hsieh2,3

1Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Southern Taiwan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan 710, R.O.C.
2Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, R.O.C.
3Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Shu Te University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 824, R.O.C.


 

Received: April 25, 2005
Accepted: April 19, 2006
Publication Date: March 1, 2007

Download Citation: ||https://doi.org/10.6180/jase.2007.10.1.07  


ABSTRACT


This paper presents a novel digital watermarking method for verifying the authentication of JPEG images, by applying the novel concept of lowest authenticable JPEG quality (LAJQ). Given a LAJQ, the authenticity of the watermarked JPEG image will be protected as long as its final JPEG compressing quality is not less than the LAJQ. The image feature is generated based on the relationships of discrete cosine transfer (DCT) coefficients in the low/middle frequency domain. The image feature is then embedded in the high frequency domain for protection, and can be extracted without the original image. In addition, the parts that are modified by the malicious attack can be located in the authentication result image. The related theorems of this scheme are fully analyzed to strengthen the proposed solution, and the experimental results show that this new method is indeed effective for JPEG image authentication.


Keywords: Image Authentication, JPEG Compression, Watermarking, Semi-fragile.


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