With the rapid growth of freely accessible data over the internet, there is an ever increasing growth in theft of copyright information and hence an ever increasing need for such process which can be presented as a proof of original ownership. One such process is watermarking which is used to embed visible/invisible images/digital content in the shared digital content so that theft could and dealt with.

1. Introduction 1.1 background and justification 1.2 Problem statement 1.3 Project scope 2. Literature Review 2.1 Watermarking-defined 2.2 Classification by visibilty 2.3 Visible watermarks 2.4 Invisible watermarks 3. Research Methodology 3.1 Robustness 3.2 Fidelity 3.3 Tamper resistance 4. Conclusion.