A Novel Signature Watermarking Scheme for Identity Protection

A novel non-blind watermarking technique for identity protection is presented. The proposed watermarking scheme uses the owner's signature as the watermark through which the ownership and validity of the document can be proven and kept intact. The proposed scheme is robust, imperceptible and faster in comparison to the other state of the art methods. Experimental simulations and evaluations of the proposed method show excellent results from both objective and subjective view points.