Dynamic stochastic resonance-based grayscale logo extraction in hybrid SVD-DCT domain
01 May 2014-Journal of The Franklin Institute-engineering and Applied Mathematics (Pergamon)-Vol. 351, Iss: 5, pp 2938-2965
TL;DR: A novel dynamic stochastic resonance (DSR)-based technique for robust extraction of a grayscale logo from a tampered watermarked image and suggests that remarkable improvement of robustness is achieved by using DSR on singular values of DCT.
Abstract: This paper presents a novel dynamic stochastic resonance (DSR)-based technique for robust extraction of a grayscale logo from a tampered watermarked image. The watermark embedding is done on the singular values (SV) of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients of the cover image. DSR is then strategically applied during the logo extraction process where the SV of DCT coefficients are tuned following a double-well potential model by utilizing the noise introduced during attacks. The resilience of this technique has been tested in the presence of various noises, geometrical distortions, enhancement, compression, filtering and watermarking attacks. The proposed DSR-based technique for logo extraction gives noteworthy robustness without any significant trade-off in perceptual transparency of the watermarked image. A maximization approach has been adopted for the selection of bistable double-well parameters to establish noise-enhanced resonance. When compared with existing watermark extraction techniques based in SVD, DCT, SVD-DCT domains, as well as with their combination with DSR, the results suggest that remarkable improvement of robustness is achieved by using DSR on singular values of DCT.
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors proposed an underdamped multistable stochastic resonance (SR) method with stable-state matching for bearing fault diagnosis, which is able to suppress the multiscale noise.
Abstract: Most traditional overdamped monostable, bistable and even tristable stochastic resonance (SR) methods have three shortcomings in weak characteristic extraction: (1) their potential structures characterized by single stable-state type are insufficient to match with the complicated and diverse mechanical vibration signals; (2) they vulnerably suffer the interference from multiscale noise and largely depend on the help of highpass filters whose parameters are selected subjectively, probably resulting in false detection; and (3) their rescaling factors are fixed as constants generally, thereby ignoring the synergistic effect among vibration signals, potential structures and rescaling factors. These three shortcomings have limited the enhancement ability of SR. To explore the SR potential, this paper initially investigates the SR in a multistable system by calculating its output spectral amplification, further analyzes its output frequency response numerically, then examines the effect of both damping and rescaling factors on output responses and finally presents a promising underdamped SR method with stable-state matching for incipient bearing fault diagnosis. This method has three advantages: (1) the diversity of stable-state types in a multistable potential makes it easy to match with various vibration signals; (2) the underdamped multistable SR, equivalent to a moving nonlinear bandpass filter that is dependent on the rescaling factors, is able to suppress the multiscale noise; and (3) the synergistic effect among vibration signals, potential structures and rescaling and damping factors is achieved using quantum genetic algorithms whose fitness functions are new weighted signal-to-noise ratio (WSNR) instead of SNR. Therefore, the proposed method is expected to possess good enhancement ability. Simulated and experimental data of rolling element bearings demonstrate its effectiveness. The comparison results show that the proposed method is able to obtain higher amplitude at target frequency and larger output WSNR, and performs better than traditional SR methods.
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TL;DR: In this article, the role of potential-well depth and width on stochastic resonance (SR) driven by colored noise with different noise correlation times is explored and evaluated by deriving the analytic expression of output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as a most widely used indicator for quantifying SR phenomenon.
Abstract: The role of potential-well depth and width on stochastic resonance (SR) driven by colored noise with different noise correlation times is explored and evaluated by deriving the analytic expression of output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as a most widely used indicator for quantifying SR phenomenon. Double resonance peaks are observed and shifted between single peak and double peaks when SNR is expressed as the function of varying potential-well depth, varying potential-well width, additive noise intensity, multiplicative noise intensity and the intensity ratio between two noise, respectively. Moreover, the SR behavior induced by varying potential-well depth is different from that induced by varying potential-well width. Even the shapes of SNR curves under different correlation times and coupling strength for potential-well depth are opposite to those for potential-well width and furthermore they are also of dependence on initial conditions. Above clues may be helpful to the precise control of SR by varying potential-well depth and width separately for weak signal enhancement.
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TL;DR: The proposed KPSO-ADFSR method achieves global optimization of system parameters in a short time and overcomes the shortcomings of the traditional stochastic resonance method, which has a long convergence time and tends to easily fall into local optimization.
Abstract: For the adjustable parameters stochastic resonance system, the selection of the structural parameters plays a decisive role in the performance of the detection method. The vibration signal of rotating machinery is non-linear and unstable, and its weak fault characteristics are easily concealed by noise. Under strong background noise interference, the detection of fault features is particularly challenging. Therefore, a type of weak fault feature extraction method, named knowledge-based particle swarm optimization algorithm for asymptotic delayed feedback stochastic resonance (abbreviated as KPSO-ADFSR) is proposed. Through deduction under adiabatic approximation, we observe that both the asymmetric parameters, the length of delay and the feedback strength, impact the potential function. After adjusting the asymmetric parameters of the system, the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is used as the fitness function, and the setting of the relationship between the noise intensity and barrier height is used as the prior knowledge of the particle swarm algorithm. Through this algorithm, the delay length and the feedback strength are optimized. This method achieves global optimization of system parameters in a short time; it overcomes the shortcomings of the traditional stochastic resonance method, which has a long convergence time and tends to easily fall into local optimization. It can effectively improve the detection of weak fault features. In the bearing rolling body pitting corrosion failure experiment and steel field engineering experiment, the proposed method could extract the characteristics of a weak fault more effectively than the traditional stochastic resonance method based on the standard particle swarm algorithm.
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TL;DR: The experimental results demonstrate good visual imperceptibility and resiliency of the proposed scheme against an intentional and un-intentional variety of attacks.
Abstract: In this paper, we present a new, robust digital watermarking scheme for ownership protection. The scheme is based on Steerable Pyramid (SP) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) using Pearson product moment correlation. During the process of watermark embedding, SP is performed on original host image, and corresponding oriented sub-band is selected to carry the watermark. DCT is applied to each block of size 8x8 of the selected sub-band. Two independent streams representing the watermark are embedded in low and mid-frequency of DCT components. Watermark detection is based on comparison result between Pearson product moment correlations of the two independent streams with each watermarked block. The experimental results demonstrate good visual imperceptibility and resiliency of the proposed scheme against an intentional and un-intentional variety of attacks.
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TL;DR: The noise always plays a key role in different science and engineering applications, and here, the effect of the addition of external noise (i.e., stochastic resonance (SR) noise) in weak signal detection application is studied and the proposed detection technique is compared with the state-of-the-art techniques.
Abstract: The noise always plays a key role in different science and engineering applications. Here, we study the effect of the addition of external noise (i.e., stochastic resonance (SR) noise) in weak signal detection application. We also explore the conditions of improvability and non-improvability for a particular SR noise. We analyze both symmetric and asymmetric SR noises in our example. With certain equality and inequality constraints, we discuss the penalty function method which is used to design a single objective function. Furthermore, the particle swarm optimization technique has been used to maximize the probability of detection (
$$P_\mathrm{D}$$
) at a constant value of the probability of false alarm (
$$P_\mathrm{FA}$$
). With a numerical example, we have exhibited the performance of the proposed detector. We compare our proposed detection technique with the state-of-the-art techniques, and it is observed that the optimum $$P_\mathrm{D}$$
is comparable at a constant value of $$P_\mathrm{FA}$$
. The proposed detection technique is also used for watermark detection application to show the practicality of the proposed technique.
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