When network and storage devices become more popular, the digital data more easily and more quickly will be distributed. Can be easily pirated copy and did not limit a large number of multimedia information (images, audio and video). Therefore, people are increasingly concerned about the protection of intellectual property rights of multimedia. Digital watermarking is a useful and the developme...

Image compression is very important for efficient transmission and storage of images .Images contain large amounts of information that requires much storage space, large transmission bandwidths and long transmission times. Therefore it is advantageous to compress the image by storing only the essential information needed to reconstruct the image. Image compression is a widely addressed research...

These days, with technological advancement, it is very easy for miscreants to produce illegal multimedia data copies. Various techniques of copyright protection of free data are being developed daily. Digital watermarking is one such technique, where digital embedding of the copyright information/watermark into the data to be protected. The two major ways of doing so are spatial domain and the ...

A new estimator for evolutionary spectrum (ES) based on short time Fourier transform (STFT) and modified group delay function (MGDF) by signal decomposition (SD) is proposed. The STFT due to its built-in averaging, suppresses the cross terms and the MGDF preserves the frequency resolution of the rectangular window with the reduction in the Gibbs ripple. The present work overcomes the magnitude ...

Digital image and video in their raw form require an enormous amount of storage capacity. Considering the important role played by digital imaging and video, it is necessary to develop a system that produces high degree of compression while preserving critical image/video information. There is various transformation techniques used for data compression. Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Discr...

In the past few years many new techniques and concepts based on data hiding have been introduced for image authentication and copy right protection. With a lot of information available on various search engines, to protect the ownership of information is a crucial area of research. Digital watermarking is a popular technique that is used for copyright protection and authentication. Digital wate...

We show that an efficient quantizer originally developed for wavelet compression can be applied to DCT coding with excellent results. We have implemented a system for block-based, embedded, progressive, DCT image compression which makes use of the embedded zerotree wavelet (EZW) algorithm of Shapiro. The image is partitioned into a number of distinct square blocks and the DCT applied to each of...

The proposed work describes the algorithms for Image Compression using Transform Coding Methods: Modified Hermite Transform (MHT), Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Wavelet Transform (WT).In MHT and DCT, the given image is divided into NxN subblocks and transformation is applied to each block .Then, a threshold value is selected such that to minimize the mean square value between Original ima...

One of the advantages of the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) compared to Fourier Transform (e.g. Discrete Cosine Transform DCT) is its ability to provide both spatial and frequency localization of image energy. However, WT coefficients, like DCT coefficients, are defined by magnitude as well as sign. While algorithms exist for the coding of wavelet coefficients magnitude, there are no efficien...

In this paper a novel invisible robust watermarking scheme for embedding and extracting a digital watermark in an image is presented. The novelty lies in determining perceptually important coefficients of transform in the host image using simple Haar Wavelet Transform (HWT) and Genetic Algorithm(GA)-Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO) based hybrid optimization. Invisible watermark is embedded such...