An Invisible Logo Watermarking using Arnold Transform

Digital watermarking is the process of hiding information into the digital content. The method of embedding a smaller logo image into the host image is called logo watermarking. The system proposes an invisible and secure watermarking. The key entered initially determine the location of embedding and thus classified the host image to white and black textured regions. The logo image is then transformed using Arnold transform. Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) technique is employed for embedding the transformed logo into the white textured regions. Watermark extraction is done by entering the same key which was already entered during embedding. The system is secure and the logo is imperceptible within the host image. Finally for analysis, PSNR value has been used as a metric for determining the quality of the recovered image. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.