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Reversible image watermarking schemes are used to protect ownership and copyrights of digital images. This paper proposes a novel reversible image watermarking scheme based on adaptive image interpolation, segmentation and additive prediction error expansion (PEE). Proposed interpolation comprises of weighted average of neighboring pixels by allocating higher and lower weights to less and more distant neighboring pixel values respectively. The proposed adaptive image interpolation focuses on detection of edges thus minimizing artifacts imposed by interpolation. The idea of embedding varying amount of watermark bits in different image segments has been explored. Simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC) based image segmentation is performed to separate very sharp, sharp, smooth and very smooth regions in image. Higher number of watermark bits are embedded in sharp regions by using additive prediction error expansion embedding technique. Simulations of proposed and existing techniques were performed on different images and compared using embedding capacity (EC), peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), computational efficiency, image quality, mean square error (MSE), normalized cross correlation (NCC) and structural similarity index (SSIM). The experimental results show that proposed scheme achieves better results in terms of EC, PSNR, computational efficiency, image quality, MSE, NCC and SSIM as compared to existing techniques.
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Samee, R., Riaz, M.M. & Ghafoor, A. Adaptive interpolation and segmentation based reversible image watermarking. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 26821–26843 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-5890-z
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