Watermarking three-dimensional polygonal models through geometric and topological modifications

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 551-559

  Ohbuchi, Ryutarou ^a,c,d,e   Masuda, Hiroshi ^a,b   Aono, Masaki ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Copyright protection; Data embedding; Data hiding; Digital fingerprinting; Digital watermarking; Geometric modeling; Steganography; Three dimensional computer graphics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COPYRIGHTS; DATA RECORDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOPOLOGY;

DATA EMBEDDING; DATA HIDING; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; STEGANOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL POLYGONAL MODELS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0032069705     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.668977     Document Type: Article

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