The invention belongs to the technical field of
digital image copyright protection, and particularly relates to a
color image zero watermarking method based on rapid
quaternion generalized polar complex
exponential transformation. The invention provides a
color image zero watermarking method based on fast
quaternion generalized polar complex
exponential transformation, and the method comprises thesteps: firstly, calculating the fast
quaternion generalized polar complex
exponential transformation FQGPCET of an original carrier image, carrying out the moment selection, and constructing a hybridlow-order moment feature with the good robustness and discrimination; secondly, utilizing asymmetric Tent mapping with good security to encrypt and convert the
feature vector into a feature map; then,, scrambling the feature map and the
watermark image by using generalized
Arnold transformation, and taking the XOR of the scrambling results of the feature map and the
watermark image to obtain a zero
watermark image which can be used for copyright
authentication; and finally, in order to ensure that the copyright can be publicly verified, enabling the credible mechanism to authenticate the zerowatermark, the secret key and the copyright owner identity information and adds a digital
timestamp.