Secured Mechanism Towards Integrity of Digital Images Using DWT, DCT, LSB and Watermarking Integrations

Abstract

"Watermarking" is one method in which digital information is buried in a carrier signal;
the hidden information should be related to the carrier signal. There are many different types of
digital watermarking, including traditional watermarking that uses visible media (such as snaps,
images, or video), and a signal may be carrying many watermarks. Any signal that can tolerate
noise, such as audio, video, or picture data, can have a digital watermark implanted in it. A digital
watermark must be able to withstand changes that can be made to the carrier signal in order to
protect copyright information in media files. The goal of digital watermarking is to ensure the
integrity of data, whereas steganography focuses on making information undetectable to humans.
Watermarking doesn't alter the original digital image, unlike public-key encryption, but rather
creates a new one with embedded secured aspects for integrity. There are no residual effects of
encryption on decrypted documents. This work focuses on strong digital image watermarking
algorithms for copyright protection purposes. Watermarks of various sorts and uses were
discussed, as well as a review of current watermarking techniques and assaults. The project shows
how to watermark an image in the frequency domain using DCT and DWT, as well as in the spatial
domain using the LSB approach. When it comes to noise and compression, frequency-domain
approaches are far more resilient than LSB. All of these scenarios necessitate the use of the original
picture to remove the watermark. Out of the three, the DWT approach has provided the best results.
We can improve the resilience of our watermark while having little to no extra influence on image
quality by embedding watermarks in these places.