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This paper compares the most utilized spread spectrum technique with the newly evolved technique based on Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) for watermarking digital images. Both techniques are tested for a variety of attacks and the simulation results show that the watermarks generated by these techniques have complimentary robustness properties. A new hybrid technique, combining both paradigms, is proposed that is capable of surviving an extremely wide range of attacks. An image is first watermarked using spread spectrum and then a SVD based watermark is added to the watermarked image. The resulting double watermarked image is extremely robust to a wide range of distortions.
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Bhandari, K., Mitra, S.K., Jadhav, A. (2005). A Hybrid Approach to Digital Image Watermarking Using Singular Value Decomposition and Spread Spectrum. In: Pal, S.K., Bandyopadhyay, S., Biswas, S. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence. PReMI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3776. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11590316_69
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