To ensure that the embedded area of the watermark is preserved with a high probability during cropping, we propose an effective and anti-cropping attacked watermarking method. Firstly, we use a saliency detection network to select the embedding region; then we use a Transformer network to embed the transformed watermark into this region; to ensure the robustness of the watermark, a noise layer is used to attack the embedded image before extracting the watermark; finally, we use a fully convolutional network to extract watermark from the salient region. The experimental results show that the proposed method has higher robustness than compared methods under common nine attack methods. Our method can accurately extract the embedded watermark under saliency detection-based cropping attack.
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