For common color image watermarking algorithms embed watermarking only in luminance component or each color component separately lead to the watermarked images transparency and robustness problems cannot achieve trade-off
a new RGB color image watermarking algorithm based on three-dimensional discrete cosine transform (3D-DCT) is proposed. Firstly
to enhance the security of the watermarking
the watermark image is processed by XOR encryption and Arnold scrambling. Secondly
the RGB color image is subdivided to non-overlapping blocks
and performs 3D-DCT for each block. Finally
the first coefficient of each block after performing 3D-DCT is modified by exploiting quantification method to embed watermarking. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has good transparency and robustness
and it has some practical for color image copyright protection applications.