Content-aware resizing methods have recently been developed, among which, seam-carving has achieved the most widespread use. Seam-carving’s versatility enables deliberate object removal and benign image resizing, in which perceptually important content is preserved. Both types of modifications compromise the utility and validity of the modified images as evidence in legal and journalistic appli...

This paper presents a robust watermarking technique for color and grayscale image. The proposed method involves many techniques to conform a secure and robust watermarking. In the proposed technique the watermark is embedded in 3 level of DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform) and before embedding the watermark image is passed through chaotic encryption process for its security, other important thing...

An Image AdaptiveWatermarking method based on the Discrete Wavelet Transform is presented in this paper. The robustness and fidelity of the proposed method are evaluated and the method is compared to state-of-the-art watermarking techniques available in the literature. For the evaluation of watermark transparency, an image fidelity factor based on a perceptual distortion metric is introduced. O...

A novel watermarking scheme for color images has been proposed using column DCT wavelet transform. To improve the robustness of watermarking scheme, compressed watermark with tolerable fidelity is embedded into host image. Middle frequency coefficients are selected for embedding watermark so that the proposed scheme can sustain attacks like lossy image compression where high frequency coefficie...

This paper proposes a new image resizing method based on splines, which is constructed by the Thieletype continued fractions and the Newton interpolation. Like most interpolation techniques proposed in the past, this paper focuses on determining pixel values using the relationship between neighboring points. The interpolation is carried out by choosing the osculatory interpolants in every subin...

Seam-carving has achieved the most widespread use with the blossom of content-aware resizing methods. This paper proposes the video retargeting method where the aspect ratio and the size of the video are reduced. It deals with the spatial and temporal coherence for the purpose of resizing videos. The proposed algorithm is mainly based on matching-area-based temporal energy adjustment. Each fram...

Hardware designers are constantly looking for ways to squeeze waste out of architectures to achieve better power efficiency. Cache resizing is a technique that can remove wasteful power consumption in caches. The idea is to determine the minimum cache a program needs to run at near-peak performance, and then reconfigure the cache to implement this efficient capacity. While there has been signif...