In DFT based approach fourier coefficients have two
components-phase and magnitude. Experiments shows that
attacks such as geometric rotation , don‟t modify the phase
information of the coefficient. Therefore DFT based
algorithm are robust to translation, rotation and scaling
attacks[3].Authors also reported that the phase based
watermarking are relatively robust to change in image
contrast. Modification of DFT magnitude coefficient are
much perceptible than phase modification, one would
expect that good image compressors would give much
higher importance to preserving the DFT phase than the
DFT magnitude, rendering the DFT magnitude based
watermarking system vulnerable to image compression. All
major compression schemes (JPEG,MPEG) preserved the
DFT magnitude coefficients as well as preserved the DFT
phase.