A Novel Entropy Based Image Watermarking in Wavelet Domain

In this paper, we proposed a novel entropy-based image watermarking method in wavelet domain. Unlike traditional entropy, we use the normalized energy instead of the probability which is called energy-based entropy (EBE). Based on EBE, the watermark can be embedded robustly and imperceptibly. In our proposed method. the wavelet-trees are grouped into super-trees. Then each super-tree is also divided into live subblocks. According to the watermark bit state. the EBE of each sub-block will be modified respectively. In an experiment. three images (Lenna, Goldhill and Peppers) are chosen for evaluating the performance. The PSNR of these watermarked images are 44.039. 43.51 and 43.67. Compared with Wang et al. [18]. it greatly increases the PSNR. by about 5.8. 4.8 and 3.9 dB respectively. For the consideration of the capacity for embedding. the maximum number of watermark, bits is also increased. The experimental results show that the proposed entropy-based watermarking method performs well in JPEG compression. filtering (Gaussian filter. median filter and sharpen) and geometrical attacks (pixel shift and rotation). In addition, it is also very robust to against the multiple watermark attack.