VISUAL MASKS FOR DIGITAL WATERMARKING OF DIGITAL IMAGERY

Original (Chinese)

The present disclosure relates to digital watermarking systems that may use visual masks to optimize watermark embedding in digital imagery. A visual mask provides guidance for adjusting digital watermark signal strength, enabling improved trade-offs between watermark imperceptibility and robustness. Multiple embodiments generate visual masks including: (1) a Perceptual Modeling Candidate approach using contrast masking and texture classification based on standard deviation mapping; (2) a wavelet-based approach using Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform for translation-invariant frequency analysis; (3) artificial intelligence approaches employing convolutional neural networks trained to optimize embedding strength while minimizing perceptual distance metrics such as LPIPS; and (4) LPIPS threshold masking that determines optimal embedding strengths by testing multiple candidate strengths. Visual masks enable content-adaptive digital watermarking that places stronger signals in textured regions while maintaining imperceptibility in flat regions, improving visibility-robustness performance compared to uniform embedding approaches.