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Towards robust hidden watermarking using multiple quasi-circles

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Veena Sridhar,

Xiaobo Li,

Mario A. NascimentoAuthors Info & Claims

MM&Sec '01: Proceedings of the 2001 workshop on Multimedia and security: new challenges

Pages 31 - 35

https://doi.org/10.1145/1232454.1232467

Published: 05 October 2001 Publication History

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Digital watermarking is the process of embedding a pattern or an icon into an image to establish legal ownership to protect the copyrights of the image in a publicly accessible image database. In this paper, we propose three robust watermarking schemes. One of our schemes, Diagonal Insersion (DI), modifies the Fourier coefficients of the middle frequencies of the input image, according to a binary string. Another scheme, Randomized Multiple Circles (RMC), is based on a technique proposed by Licks [8] which embeds a binary string by modifying the Fourier coefficients along concentric circles. We introduce a random perturbation into the radius of the circles to protect the waterwark from removal (cryptographic attack). A hybrid technique (HY) is also proposed to combine DI and RMC. These methods are robust against various attacks, such as geometric transformation, filtering, cropping and histogram equalization. Some experiemental results are also reported.

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MM&Sec '01: Proceedings of the 2001 workshop on Multimedia and security: new challenges

October 2001

80 pages

ISBN:1581133936

DOI:10.1145/1232454

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Sreelaja NPai G(2009)Swarm intelligence approach of leaker identification in secure multicast2009 World Congress on Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC)10.1109/NABIC.2009.5393452(660-665)Online publication date: Dec-2009
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Chu HQiao LNahrstedt KWang HJain R(2002)A secure multicast protocol with copyright protectionACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review10.1145/568567.56857032:2(42-60)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2002
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/568567.568570

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