Watermarking embeds a secret message into a cover message. In media watermarking the secret is usually a copyright notice and the cover a digital image. Watermarking an object discourages intellectual property theft, or when such theft has occurred, allows us to prove ownership. The Software Watermarking problem can be described as follows. Embed a structure W into a program P such that: W can ...

This work advocates the formulation of digital watermarking as a communication problem. We consider watermarking as communication with side information available for both encoder and decoder. A generalized watermarking channel is considered that includes geometrical attacks, fading and additive non-Gaussian noise. The optimal encoding/decoding scenario is discussed for the generalized watermark...

Due to large amount of frames, similarity between frames and temporal attacks (frame dropping, frame averaging, frame swapping etc.), video watermarking process is more difficult than image watermarking. Current image watermarking methods are not adequate to solve these difficulties. We propose a novel uncompressed video watermarking system based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Artificial Neur...

Imperceptibility and robustness are two key but complementary requirements of any watermarking algorithm. Low-strength watermarking yields high imperceptibility but exhibits poor robustness. High-strength watermarking schemes achieve good robustness but often suffer from embedding distortions resulting in poor visual quality in host media. This paper proposes a unique video watermarking algorit...

In many blind watermarking proposals, the unwatermarked host data is viewed as unavoidable interference. Recently, however, it has been shown that blind watermarking corresponds to communication with side information (i.e., the host data) at the encoder. For a Gaussian host data and Gaussian channel, Costa showed that blind watermarking can theoretically eliminate all interference from the host...

Corresponding Author: Nasr Addin Ahmed Salem AlMaweri Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Email: [email protected] Abstract: Data protection from malicious attacks and misuse has become a crucial issue. Various types of data, including images, videos, audio and ...

Digital watermarking is the act of hiding a message related to a digital signal (i.e. an image, song, video) within the signal itself. It is a concept closely related to steganography, in that they both hide a message inside a digital signal. However, what separates them is their goal. Watermarking tries to hide a message related to the actual content of the digital signal, while in steganograp...

One way for copyright protection is digital watermarking. Digital watermarking is the process of embedding information regarding the authenticity or the identity of the owners into a image or any piece of data. Digital watermarking has been classified into two types :Visible and Invisible Watermarking. In visible digital watermarking, the embedded information is visible. Typically, the informat...

In many blind watermarking proposals, the unwatermarked host data is viewed as unavoidable interference. Recently, however, it has been shown that blind watermarking corresponds to communication with side information (i.e., the host data) at the encoder. For a Gaussian host data and Gaussian channel, Costa showed that blind watermarking can theoretically eliminate all interference from the host...

Recently it was shown that, in some situations, blind watermarking can perform as well as watermarking schemes with the host signal available to the decoder. In this paper, blind watermarking of colored Gaussian host signals in the presence of filtering and additive Gaussian noise attacks is discussed. Three suboptimal but practical schemes are compared with a scheme where the host signal is av...