Abstract: Advancement in information technology is playing an increasing role in the use of information systems comprising Digital data. The Digital Image data’s used effectively in collaborative environments for information extraction; consequently, they are vulnerable to security threats concerning ownership rights and data tampering. Watermarking is advocated to enforce ownership rights over shared data and for providing a means for tackling digital image data tampering. When ownership rights are enforced using watermarking, the underlying digital data undergoes certain modifications; as a result of which, the digital image data quality gets compromised. Reversible watermarking is employed to ensure data quality along-with digital data recovery. However, such techniques are usually not robust against malicious attacks and do not provide any mechanism to selectively watermark a particular attribute by taking into account its role in knowledge discovery. Therefore, reversible watermarking is required that ensures watermark encoding and decoding by accounting for the role of all the features in knowledge discovery and original encrypted watermarked data recovery in the presence of active malicious attacks In this paper, a robust and semi-blind reversible watermarking (RRW) technique for digital data has been proposed that addresses the above objectives. Experimental studies prove the effectiveness of RRW against malicious attacks and show that the proposed technique outperforms existing ones.

Keywords: Digital data, RRW, Digital Image, reversible watermarking.