Digital Image Watermaking in Color Models Using DCT Transformation

Abstract

In recent years, an access to multimedia data has become much easier due to the rapid growth of the Internet. While this is usually considered an improvement of everyday life, it also makes unauthorized copying and distributing of multimedia data much easier, therefore presenting a challenge in the field of copyright protection. Digital watermarking, which is inserting copyright information into the data, has been proposed to solve the problem. In this paper two original watermarking schemes based on DCT transformation for ownership verification and authentication of color images were proposed. Some color models in process of watermarks embedding and extracting are described too.