Robust hash-based image watermarking with resistance to geometric distortions and watermark-estimation attack

Digital watermarking provides a feasible way for copyright protection of multimedia. The major disadvantage of the existing methods is their limited resistance to both extensive geometric distortions and watermark-estimation attack (WEA). In view of this fact, this paper aims to propose a robust image watermarking scheme that can withstand geometric distortions and WEA simultaneously. Our scheme is mainly composed of two components: (i) mesh generation and embedding for resisting geometric distortions; and (ii) construction of hash-based content-dependent watermark (CDW) for resisting WEA. Extensive experimental results obtained from standard benchmark confirm the ability of our method in improving robustness.