COPYRIGHT PROTECTION FOR IMAGES ON ANDROID PHONES

Prashant Shinde, Chetan Mohol

Abstract: In the mobile device area, new advance features are introduced such as android phones, tablets, windows phones. Using this mobiles phones , we can capture the image and we can edit the image using some applications such as Photoshop on pc’s .This type of phones also provide one feature like publish our image on websites. Hence, there is need a mobile application which provides protection to those images on mobile itself. There are some common approaches which guaranteed security to digital images is to use steganography and watermarking. We are trying to develop a tool for Android OS that permits to add watermark to images using BPCS algorithm. In this paper, we discuss this application and working of BPCS algorithm.

Keywords: Mobile image security, steganography, watermarking, copyright protection, bit plane, BPCS.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0211016