IMAGE WATERMARKING USING QUANTIZATION INDEX MODULATION & GA

Digital watermarking is one of the proposed solutions for copyright protection of multimedia data. A watermark is a form of image or text that is impressed onto paper which provides evidence of its authenticity. A digital watermark is digital data embedded in some host document so as to later prove the ownership of the document. Digital image watermarking refers to digital data embedding in images. Robust image watermarking systems are required so that watermarked images can resist geometric attacks in addition to common image processing tasks such as JPEG compression.