Reversible Image Watermarking : A Review

Authors

  • Jincy J. Fernandez  Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Cochin, Kerala, India

Keywords:

Least Significant Bit (LSB), Copyright protection, Watermarking, Reversible Watermarking.

Abstract

With the dawn of easiness in manipulating and transferring digital data in today’s world, copyright protection and content authentication has become two serious issues / problems to the content owners. One solution to this problem is to embed watermark in the digital data, i.e. Digital watermarking. But in some applications, in addition to the extraction of watermark, the recovery of the original image is also essential. Reversible watermarking is a proven solution to this issue, where both watermark and original image can be recovered. This paper gives a detailed review on various currently existing techniques of reversible watermarking.

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Jincy J. Fernandez, " Reversible Image Watermarking : A Review, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 4, Issue 4, pp.738-746, March-April-2018.