Media Processing and A Modified Watermarking Scheme Based on the Singular Value Decomposition

Abstract

We introduce the singular value decomposition (SVD) along with some of its key properties, illustrate its utility in image processing and audio processing, and show how this relates to watermarking and digital ownership protection. After establishing experimental results regarding image processing, we propose a modified version of a watermarking scheme introduced in Jain, Arora, and Panigrahi, A reliable SVD based watermarking scheme, CoRR abs/0808.0309 (2008) which offers improved robustness and imperceptibility properties.