A Camera Shooting Resilient Watermarking Scheme for Underpainting Documents

Abstract

This paper designs a novel underpainting based camera shooting resilient (CSR) document watermarking algorithm for dealing with the leak source tracking problem. By applying such algorithm, we can extract the authentication watermark information from the candid photographs. The watermarked underpainting contains three significant properties. 1) Inconspicuousness. The watermarked underpainting is inconspicuous and it will not easily be maliciously attacked. 2) Robustness. We propose DCT-based watermark embedding algorithm and distortion compensation based extracting algorithm, which make the watermark robust to camera shooting process. 3) Autocorrelation. We design the flip-based method to arrange the watermarked underpainting. So that a complete watermark region can be accurately located even if part of the document is recorded. Compared with previous watermarking algorithms, the proposed scheme guaranteed content independent embedding as well as the robustness to the camera shooting process. Besides, the proposed scheme satisfies the accuracy of extraction even when the captured document is incomplete.