Copyright protection of digital images by embedded unperceivable marks

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 12-13, 1998, Pages 897-906

  Barni, Mauro ^a   Bartolini, Franco ^a   Cappellini, Vito ^a   Piva, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Copyright protection; Digital watermarking; Image authentication; Security

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COPYRIGHTS; COSINE TRANSFORMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; SECURITY OF DATA;

DIGITAL WATERMARKING METHOD; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM (DCT) COEFFICIENTS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0032140889     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(98)00058-4     Document Type: Article

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