CAE-DCNN Architectures for Image Watermarking and Detection on Edge-IoT Networks
摘要
This paper proposes a spread spectrum (SS) image watermarking to protect both the object and the background of variable sizes using a convolutional auto-encoder (CAE) for time-critical authentication in defense surveillance on edge-IoT network. CAE represents the latent feature space (attributes) of the scene (cover) image with variable sizes that make the watermark-embedding space (size) compatible to resource-constrained edge nodes. The proposed work also suggests a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) based classifier to detect whether images are watermarked or not, using spatial patterns as well as statistical features like Kullback–Leibler divergence (KLD) and edge entropy. A large set of simulation results show that peak-signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and structural similarity index measure (SSIM) values of the watermarked image are 45.24 dB and 0.9967 for 64 and 128 folds reduction on the object and the background latent space of