Improved Watermarking Performance in Color Images through a hybrid of DWT-DCT Integration for Copyright Protection

Abstract

The era of big data has changed the view of data, data can now be considered as data assets. The definition of data assets is data that has rights (exploration rights, use rights, and ownership rights). Some experts believe that data assets have value at their core, the value contained can be in the form of information owned by data assets. Sharing digital data is growing every day as more people access the Internet quickly. Unauthorized individuals can easily access multimedia, such as text, images, video and audio. This research focuses on digital image watermarking to ensure security and copyright protection. This scheme uses a watermarking technique based on the hybrid of the two transformation domains (frequency domain), Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). The digital image is processed into several parts by the DWT, then the watermark is embedded into one of the parts in the frequency domain using the DCT transformation, then the parts are combined again in the DWT. The experimental results show that the watermarked images achieve the highest PSNR result was 45.2719 dB, and the lowest was 43.3194 dB. an average PSNR value of 44.1254 dB, by testing ten color image datasets sourced from the SIPI-USC image database.