%Project: Tutorial on Least Significant Bit Substitution

% Watermark Embedding

clear all;

% read in the cover object you want to use for embedding

file_name='lena.bmp';
cover_object=imread(file_name);

% read the message image you want to hide in the cover image
file_name='baboon.bmp';
message=imread(file_name);

% conversions needed to spread the image values on a 256 gray-scale

message=double(message);
message=round(message./256);
message=uint8(message);

% determine the size of cover image used for embedding

Mc=size(cover_object,1); %Height
Nc=size(cover_object,2); %Width

% determine the size of message object to embed

Mm=size(message,1); %Height
Nm=size(message,2); %Width

%y = uint8(wgn(Mm,Nm,1));

% title the message object out to cover object size to generate

watermark
for ii = 1:Mc
forjj = 1:Nc
watermark(ii,jj)=message(mod(ii,Mm)+1,mod(jj,Nm)+1);
end
end

% set the LSB of cover_object(ii,jj) to the value of the MSB of

watermark(ii,jj)
watermarked_image=cover_object;
for ii = 1:Mc
forjj = 1:Nc

watermarked_image(ii,jj)=bitset(watermarked_image(ii,jj),1,watermark(ii,
jj));
end
end
% add noise to watermarked image
noisy = imnoise(watermarked_image,'gaussian');

% write to file the two images

imwrite(watermarked_image,'lsb_watermarked.bmp','bmp');
imwrite(noisy,'lsb_watermarked_noise.bmp','bmp');

% display watermarked image

figure(1)
imshow(watermarked_image,[])
title('Watermarked Image')

% display watermarked and noised image

figure(2)
imshow(noisy,[])
title('Watermarked and noised Image')

So if you execute this code you are going to have on screen and on disk two images, that
I can’t dsiplay here because they are bmp files.

Now let’s see how to recover the watermark:

%Project: Tutorial on Least Significant Bit Substitution

% Watermark Recover

clear all;

% read in watermarked image

file_name='lsb_watermarked.bmp';
watermarked_image=imread(file_name);

% determine size of watermarked image

Mw=size(watermarked_image,1); %Height
Nw=size(watermarked_image,2); %Width

% use lsb of watermarked image to recover watermark

for ii = 1:Mw
forjj = 1:Nw
watermark(ii,jj)=bitget(watermarked_image(ii,jj),1);
end
end

% scale the recovered watermark

watermark=256*double(watermark);
% scale and display recovered watermark
figure(1)
imshow(watermark,[])
title('Recovered Watermark')

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%Project: Tutorial on Least Significant Bit Substitution
% Watermark Recover

clear all;

% read in watermarked image

file_name='lsb_watermarked.bmp';
watermarked_image=imread(file_name);

% determine size of watermarked image

Mw=size(watermarked_image,1); %Height
Nw=size(watermarked_image,2); %Width

% use lsb of watermarked image to recover watermark

for ii = 1:Mw
for jj = 1:Nw
watermark(ii,jj)=bitget(watermarked_image(ii,jj),1);
end
end

% scale the recovered watermark

watermark=256*double(watermark);

% scale and display recovered watermark

figure(1)
imshow(watermark,[])
title('Recovered Watermark')