Abstract As telecommunication and computer technologies proliferate, most data are stored and transferred in digital format. Content owners, therefore, are searching for new technologies to protect copyrighted products in digital form. Image watermarking emerged as a technique for protecting image copyrights. Early studies on image watermarking used the pixel domain whereas modern watermarking methods convert a pixel based image to another domain and embed a watermark in the transform domain. This study aims to use, Block Discrete Wavelet Transform (BDWT) as the transform domain for embedding and extracting watermarks. This study consists of 2 parts. The first part investigates the effect of dividing an image into non- overlapping blocks and transforming each image block to a DWT domain, independently. Then, effect of block size on watermark success and, how it is related to block size, are analyzed. The second part investigates embedding a vector image logo as a watermark. Vector images consist of geometric objects such as lines, circles and splines. Unlike pixel-based images, vector images do not lose quality due to scaling. Vector watermarks deteriorate very easily if the watermarked image is processed, such as compression or filtering. Special care must be taken when the embedded watermark is a vector image, such as adjusting the watermark strength or distributing the watermark data into the image. The relative importance of watermark data must be taken into account. To the best of our knowledge this study is the first to use a vector image as a watermark embedded in a host image.

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