A Hidden DCT-Based Invisible Watermarking Method for Low-Cost Hardware Implementations
Open Access
- 18 June 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Electronics
- Vol. 10 (12), 1465
- https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10121465
Abstract
This paper presents an invisible and robust watermarking method and its hardware implementation. The proposed architecture is based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT) algorithm. Novel techniques are applied as well to reduce the computational cost of DCT and color space conversion to achieve low-cost and high-speed performance. Besides, a watermark embedder and a blind extractor are implemented in the same circuit using a resource-sharing method. Our approach is compatible with various watermarking embedding ratios, such as 1/16 and 1/64, with a PSNR of over 45 and the NC value of 1. After Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) compression with a quality factor (QF) of 50, our method can achieve an NC value of 0.99. Results from a design compiler (DC) with TSMC-90 nm CMOS technology show that our design can achieve the frequency of 2.32 GHz with the area consumption of 304,980.08 and power consumption of 508.1835 mW. For the FPGA implementation, our method achieved a frequency of 421.94 MHz. Compared with the state-of-the-art works, our design improved the frequency by 4.26 times, saved 90.2% on area and increased the power efficiency by more than 1000 fold.
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