Asymmetric self-recovery oriented stereo image watermarking method for three dimensional video system

摘要

To authenticate integrity of the stereo image for three dimensional video systems, a new asymmetric self-recovery oriented stereo image watermarking method is proposed by considering inter-correlations between the left and right views of the stereo image. An asymmetric self-recovery mechanism is presented to conduct allocation of watermarking capacity for asymmetrically embedding recovery references of each view. The presented mechanism is also used to recover tampered left and right views asymmetrically to obtain high quality of the stereo image with the help of disparity when the tampered regions of the stereo image are authenticated. For security, a chaotic function is employed to generate authentication bits to detect tamper. The high-frequency energy of discrete wavelet transform is utilized to divide blocks of each view into smooth and complex types, so that the recovery reference with alterable bits is computed. Moreover, to obtain a trade-off between transparency and watermarking capacity, human visual characteristics are taken into account and then a just-noticeable difference model is exploited to classify the blocks into sensitive and insensitive types, which defines two or three least significant bits of pixels are allocated for embedding watermark. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can reconstruct tamper efficiently and outperform other stereo image watermarking methods, especially for extensive tamper.