A Novel Robust Adaptive Color Image Watermarking Scheme Based on Artificial Bee Colony

Abstract

This paper proposes a new robust adaptive watermarking scheme based on dual-tree quaternion wavelet and artificial bee colony, wherein the host images and watermark images are both color images. Color host images and watermark images in RGB space are transformed into YCbCr space. Then, apply Arnold chaotic map on their luminance components and use the artificial bee colony optimization algorithm to generate embedding watermark strength factor. Dual-tree quaternion wavelet transform is performed on the luminance component of the scrambled host image. Apply singular value decomposition on its low-frequency amplitude sub-band to obtain the principal component (PC). Embed the watermark into the principal component. Analysis and experimental results show that the proposed scheme is better as compared to the RDWT-SVD scheme and the QWT-DCT scheme.