A Double Embedding of an Anti-Removable Visible Logo Using Discrete Wavelet Transform and Chaotic Map

Abstract

     The aims of visible watermarking are to prevent the illegal copying of videos and images and to avoid the theft and unauthorized advertisement of the legitimate owners' content. The visible watermark is distinguishable with the naked eye. This makes it easily removed by an attacker. This paper proposes an anti-removable visible logo by double embedding using the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and a chaotic map. The main purpose of this method is to prevent the removal attack and restore the original video without information loss after the logo is legally removed. DWT is used for both the cover area and the logo to embed sub-bands of information from the cover area into sub-bands of the logo. The main idea of using a chaotic map is to make it difficult to recover the original video when the logo is removed by illegal means. The experiment results show that the proposed method is robust against illegal watermark removal. In addition, video frames were recovered without loss after the legal extraction process.