In digital image watermarking, an image is embedded into a picture for a
variety of purposes such as captioning and copyright protection. In this
paper, a robust private watermarking scheme for embedding a gray-scale
watermark is proposed. In the proposed method, the watermark and
original image are processed by applying blockwise DCT. Also, a Dynamic
Fuzzy Inference System (DFIS) is used to identify the best place for
watermark insertion by approximating the relationship established
between the properties of HVS model. In the insertion phase, the DC
coefficients of the original image are modified according to DC value of
watermark and output of Fuzzy System. In the experiment phase, the
CheckMark (StirMark MATLAB) software was used to verify the method
robustness by applying several conventional attacks on the watermarked
image. The results showed that the proposed scheme provided high image
quality while it was robust against various attacks, such as
Compression, Filtering, additive Noise, Cropping, Scaling, Changing
aspect ratio, Copy attack, and Composite attack in comparison with
related methods.