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Digital Watermarking

  • 1st Edition - October 10, 2001
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Ingemar Cox, Matthew Miller, Jeffrey Bloom, Mathew Miller
  • Language: English

Digital watermarking is a key ingredient to copyright protection. It provides a solution to illegal copying of digital material and has many other useful applications such as br… Read more

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Description

Digital watermarking is a key ingredient to copyright protection. It provides a solution to illegal copying of digital material and has many other useful applications such as broadcast monitoring and the recording of electronic transactions. Now, for the first time, there is a book that focuses exclusively on this exciting technology. Digital Watermarking covers the crucial research findings in the field: it explains the principles underlying digital watermarking technologies, describes the requirements that have given rise to them, and discusses the diverse ends to which these technologies are being applied. As a result, additional groundwork is laid for future developments in this field, helping the reader understand and anticipate new approaches and applications.

Key features

* Emphasizes the underlying watermarking principles that are relevant for all media: images, video, and audio.* Discusses a wide variety of applications, theoretical principles, detection and embedding concepts and the key properties of digital watermarks--robustness, fidelity, data payload, and security* Examines copyright protection and many other applications, including broadcast monitoring, transaction tracking, authentication, copy control, and device control.* Presents a series of detailed examples called "Investigations" that illustrate key watermarking concepts and practices.* Includes an appendix in the book and on the web containing the source code for the examples.* Includes a comprehensive glossary of watermarking terminology

Readership

Developers and researchers of digital watermarking products, chip designers , engineers developing multimedia products and postgraduate students in cryptography and multimedia courses in electrical engineering and computer science departments

Table of contents

PrefaceExample Watermarking Systems1 Introduction2 Applications and Properties3 Models of Watermarking4 Basic Message Coding5 Watermarking with Side Information6 Analyzing Errors7 Using Perceptual Models8 Robust Watermarking9 Watermark Security10 Content Authentication Appendix A: Background Concepts Appendix B: Selected Theoretical ResultsAppendix C: Source Code Appendix D: Notationand Common Variables GlossaryReferencesIndexAbout the Authors

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 10, 2001
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Ingemar Cox

Ingemar J. Cox holds a B.Sc. from University College London and a Ph.D. from Oxford University. He worked at AT&T Bell Labs from 1984 until 1989 and in 1989 joined NEC Research Institute as a senior research scientist. From 1997 to 1999, he served as CTO of Signafy, an NEC subsidiary responsible for commercialization of watermarking, In 1999, he returned to the NEC Research Institute as a Research Fellow.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, University College, London, U.K.

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Matthew Miller

Matthew L. Miller began working in graphics and image processing at AT&T Bell Labs in 1979. He obtained a B.A. in cognitive science from the University of Rochester in 1986, and has subsequently written several commercial software applications and delivered lecture courses at a number of universities in Europe. Since 1993, he has worked as a researcher at NEC.
Affiliations and expertise
NEC, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.

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Jeffrey Bloom

Jeffrey A. Bloom, a researcher in digital watermarking at the Sarnoff Corporation, began working in the field in 1998 at Signafy, Inc. and later at NEC Research Institute. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Bloom has expertise in the areas of signal and image processing, image and video compression, and human visual models.
Affiliations and expertise
Thomson, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.

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Mathew Miller

Matthew L. Miller began working in graphics and image processing at AT&T Bell Labs in 1979. He obtained a B.A. in cognitive science from the University of Rochester in 1986, and has subsequently written several commercial software applications and delivered lecture courses at a number of universities in Europe. Since 1993, he has worked as a researcher at NEC.

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