A Hybrid Security Approach for Digital Image Transmission Using 3D Logistic Maps, Arnold Scrambling, and SVD-DWT Digital Watermarking

Paper ID : 1045-ICEEM2025 (R1)

Authors

Azza Ramadan Dandooh *1, Adel S. El-Fishawy2, Ezz El-Din Hemdan2 1Electrical engineer 2menoufia

Abstract

The rise in cybercrime, data breaches, and piracy from unsecured networks use highlighted the need for securing sensitive information, with watermarking and cryptography emerging as key methods for ensuring security, copyright, and privacy. Therefore, this paper presents an efficient hybrid crypto-watermarking system designed to enhance the secure transmission of color images. The proposed approach combines watermarking and cryptographic techniques, incorporating wavelet fusion, multi-level Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), 3D logistic maps, and Arnold scrambling to achieve robust security. The system encrypts the color watermark image using a 3D logistic map and separates the encrypted watermark into its red, green, and blue components. Each component is then fused with an encrypted grayscale watermark image using Arnold scrambling, further elevating the security level. The encrypted fused images are embedded into a color cover image also split into its red, green, and blue components using multi-level DWT and SVD to produce three watermarked images. Finally, these images are combined to form a single watermarked color image. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system can effectively withstand various sophisticated attacks, including rotation, Gaussian noise, and histogram equalization, ensuring reliable transmission over communication channels. Furthermore, even when the watermarked images are subjected to these attacks, the extracted watermark images can still be accurately recovered, showcasing the robustness and reliability of the proposed system.

Keywords

Digital watermarking, Encryption, Wavelet fusion, Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), 3D logistic map, and Arnold scrambling.

Status: Accepted