Deep Learning-based Dual Watermarking for Image Copyright Protection and Authentication

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Main Authors: Padhi, Sudev Kumar, Tiwari, Archana, Ali, Sk. Subidh
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Published: 2025
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author Padhi, Sudev Kumar
Tiwari, Archana
Ali, Sk. Subidh
author_facet Padhi, Sudev Kumar
Tiwari, Archana
Ali, Sk. Subidh
contents Advancements in digital technologies make it easy to modify the content of digital images. Hence, ensuring digital images integrity and authenticity is necessary to protect them against various attacks that manipulate them. We present a Deep Learning (DL) based dual invisible watermarking technique for performing source authentication, content authentication, and protecting digital content copyright of images sent over the internet. Beyond securing images, the proposed technique demonstrates robustness to content-preserving image manipulations. It is also impossible to imitate or overwrite watermarks because the cryptographic hash of the image and the dominant features of the image in the form of perceptual hash are used as watermarks. We highlighted the need for source authentication to safeguard image integrity and authenticity, along with identifying similar content for copyright protection. After exhaustive testing, we obtained a high peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and structural similarity index measure (SSIM), which implies there is a minute change in the original image after embedding our watermarks. Our trained model achieves high watermark extraction accuracy and to the best of our knowledge, this is the first deep learning-based dual watermarking technique proposed in the literature.
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spellingShingle Deep Learning-based Dual Watermarking for Image Copyright Protection and Authentication
Padhi, Sudev Kumar
Tiwari, Archana
Ali, Sk. Subidh
Cryptography and Security
Artificial Intelligence
Advancements in digital technologies make it easy to modify the content of digital images. Hence, ensuring digital images integrity and authenticity is necessary to protect them against various attacks that manipulate them. We present a Deep Learning (DL) based dual invisible watermarking technique for performing source authentication, content authentication, and protecting digital content copyright of images sent over the internet. Beyond securing images, the proposed technique demonstrates robustness to content-preserving image manipulations. It is also impossible to imitate or overwrite watermarks because the cryptographic hash of the image and the dominant features of the image in the form of perceptual hash are used as watermarks. We highlighted the need for source authentication to safeguard image integrity and authenticity, along with identifying similar content for copyright protection. After exhaustive testing, we obtained a high peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and structural similarity index measure (SSIM), which implies there is a minute change in the original image after embedding our watermarks. Our trained model achieves high watermark extraction accuracy and to the best of our knowledge, this is the first deep learning-based dual watermarking technique proposed in the literature.
title Deep Learning-based Dual Watermarking for Image Copyright Protection and Authentication
topic Cryptography and Security
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18501