Protection of data using image watermarking technique

Abstract

Digital watermarking is one of the techniques used for copyright protection as well as authentication purpose. In this paper, digital watermark embedding and extraction techniques have been used in which a nested type of watermarking (a watermark inside another watermark) has been presented. The main purpose of using the nested watermarking method is, it increases the embedding capacity so that a large amount of information could be embedded. In this method, one watermark is embedded into another watermark. The resultant watermark is considered as main watermark. The main watermark is encrypted and then embedded into the main image. The main goal in encrypting the watermarks before embedding is increased safety. A5/1 encryption algorithm is used for the encryption and decryption purpose. Therefore, our research work focuses on two important things i.e., increased watermark embedding capacity and increased safety.