Review on Semi-Fragile Watermarking Algorithms for Content Authentication of Digital Images

Xiaoyan Yu, Chengyou Wang and Xiao Zhou
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Xiaoyan Yu: School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, China
Chengyou Wang: School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, China
Xiao Zhou: School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, China

Future Internet, 2017, vol. 9, issue 4, 1-17

Abstract: With the popularity of network and the continuous development of multimedia technology, saving of network bandwidth and copyright protection of multimedia content have gradually attracted people’s attention. The fragile watermark for integrity authentication of image data and protection of copyright has become a hotspot. In the storage and transmission process, image data must be compressed to save network bandwidth. As a result, semi-fragile watermarking techniques, which can be used to distinguish common image processing operations from malicious tampering, are emerging. In this paper, semi-fragile watermarking algorithms for image authentication are surveyed. The basic principles and characteristics about semi-fragile watermarking algorithms are introduced, and several kinds of attack behaviors are also included. Aiming at several typical image-authentication algorithms, advantages and disadvantages are analyzed, and evaluation indexes of various algorithms are compared. Finally, we analyze the key points and difficulties in the study on semi-fragile watermarking algorithms, and the direction about future development is prospected.

Keywords: image watermarking; semi-fragile watermark; content authentication; tamper detection; recovery; evaluation indexes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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