A watermark strategy for quantum images based on quantum fourier transform
- 24 May 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Quantum Information Processing
- Vol. 12 (2), 793-803
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-012-0423-6
Abstract
We present a robust watermark strategy for quantum images. The watermark image is embedded into the fourier coefficients of the quantum carrier image, which will not affect the carrier image’s visual effect. Before being embedded into the carrier image, the watermark image is preprocessed to be seemingly meaningless using quantum circuit, which further ensures the security of the watermark image. The properties of fourier transform ensure that the watermark embedded in the carrier image resists the unavoidable noise and cropping.Keywords
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