Semi-fragile Reversible Watermarking for 3D Models Using Spherical Crown Volume Division

Aiming at the large distortion and low tampering localization accuracy of the existing semi-fragile reversible watermarking for 3D mesh models, a novel semi-fragile reversible watermarking for 3D models using spherical crown volume division is proposed. The crown volume of a sphere is divided to reduce the embedding distortion. The possible geometric and topological transformations are separately considered in the watermark generation, and the vertices of the one-ring neighbourhood are grouped to improve the tampering localization accuracy. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme can achieve better localization accuracy and lower embedding distortion than some state-of-the-art algorithms. It has good potential for the applications in integrity authentication for 3D mesh models.