: IMAGE WATERMARKING USING LEAST SIGNIFICANT BIT ALGORITHM

Abstract The advent of the Internet has resulted in many new opportunities for the creation and delivery of content in digital form. Applications include electronic advertising, real-time video and audio delivery, digital repositories and libraries, and Web publishing. An important issue that arises in these applications is the protection of the rights of all participants. It has been recognized for quite some time that current copyright laws are inadequate for dealing with digital data. This has led to an interest towards developing new copy deterrence and protection mechanisms. In this paper, a digital watermarking system was developed using Least Significant Bit (LSB) algorithm. C# programming language was used to implement the system and its robustness was tested using different types of attacks such as distortion, saturation and gray scale.