Digital image watermarking performance improvement using bio-inspired algorithms

Abstract

Copyrights protection and ownership of multimedia is a vital task nowadays used in a lot of fields such as broadcasting media. Hence digital media watermarking techniques were developed to embed a watermark image into the original media (image or videos). The watermarking techniques aim to improve the robustness of watermarked image against attacks and increase the impeccability of significant regions of the media. This chapter focuses on explaining the rule of using metaheuristic algorithms for optimizing the robustness and impeccability of image watermarking techniques. This will be discussed through two watermarking techniques one used genetic algorithm optimization and the other use cuckoo search optimization approach.