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A Robust Quantum Watermark Algorithm Based on Quantum Log-Polar Images

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Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS 2017)

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Copyright protection for quantum image is an important research branch of quantum information technology. In this paper, based on quantum log-polar image (QUALPI), a new quantum watermark algorithm is proposed to better protect copyright of quantum image. In order to realize quantum watermark embedding, the least significant qubit (LSQb) of quantum carrier image is replaced by quantum watermark image. Compared to previous quantum watermark algorithms, the new algorithm effectively utilizes two important properties of log-polar sampling, i.e., rotation and scale invariances. These invariances make quantum watermark image extracted have a good robustness when stego image was subjected to various geometric attacks, such as rotation and scaling. Experimental simulation based on MATLAB shows that the new algorithm has a good performance on robustness, transparency and capacity.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61373131, 61303039, 61232016, 61501247), Sichuan Youth Science and Technique Foundation (No. 2017JQ0048), NUIST Research Foundation for Talented Scholars (2015r014), PAPD and CICAEET funds.

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  1. Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, People’s Republic of China

    Zhiguo Qu

  2. School of Electronic & Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, People’s Republic of China

    Zhenwen Cheng

  3. School of Computer Science, Xi’an Polytechnic University, Xi’an, 710048, People’s Republic of China

    Mingming Wang

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  2. National Dong Hwa University, Shoufeng, Taiwan

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  3. China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center, Nanjing, China

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Qu, Z., Cheng, Z., Wang, M. (2017). A Robust Quantum Watermark Algorithm Based on Quantum Log-Polar Images. In: Sun, X., Chao, HC., You, X., Bertino, E. (eds) Cloud Computing and Security. ICCCS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10603. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68542-7_38

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