Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 40, No 3: December 2025

A hybrid DWT-DCT-SVD watermarking scheme using arnold transform

Huynh, Van-Thanh (Unknown)
Nguyen, Thai-Son (Unknown)
Vo, Thanh-C (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Dec 2025

Abstract

In telemedicine, medical images and electronic patient records (EPRs) are frequently transmitted and stored, making them vulnerable to tampering and theft. To ensure data security and copyright protection, this paper proposes a hybrid watermarking scheme based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT), discrete cosine transform (DCT), and singular value decomposition (SVD). The method uses a two-level DWT to decompose the image, applies DCT to selected sub-bands, and embeds two watermarks. The first is a logo used for ownership verification, and the second is an EPR encrypted with the Arnold transform for privacy protection. SVD is then used to enhance robustness. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme achieves better image quality and stronger resistance to common attacks compared with existing watermarking methods.

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