Abstract
A neighbor-aided authentication watermarking based on a chaotic system with feedback is proposed in this paper. This algorithm can not only detect malicious manipulations but reveal block substitutions when the VQ attack occurs. An image is partitioned into non-overlapped blocks. The pixels in one block and its neighboring block are combined to produce an authentication watermark based on a chaotic system with feedback, which is sensitive to the initial value. The produced watermark is embedded into the current block. During detection, the detector extracts the watermark firstly, then generates a reference sequence and compares it with the extracted watermark to authenticate the integrity of the image and locate the tampered regions. Experimental results prove the effectiveness of our method.
