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A new robust method of non-blind image watermarking is proposed in this paper. The suggested method is performed by modification on singular value decomposition (SVD) of images in Complex Wavelet Transform (CWT) domain while CWT provides higher capacity than the real wavelet domain. Modification of the appropriate sub-bands leads to a watermarking scheme which favourably preserves the quality. The additional advantage of the proposed technique is its robustness against the most of common attacks. Analysis and experimental results show much improved performance of the proposed method in comparison with the pure SVD-based as well as hybrid methods (e.g. DWT-SVD as the recent best SVD-based scheme).
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Mansouri, A., Mahmoudi Aznaveh, A. & Torkamani Azar, F. SVD-based digital image watermarking using complex wavelet transform. Sadhana 34, 393–406 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-009-0016-y
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