DCT-domain watermarking techniques for still images: detector performance analysis and a new structure

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-68

  Hernández, Juan R ^a,b   Amado, Martín ^b   Pérez González, Fernando ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM DOMAIN; JOINT PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP; STILL DIGITAL IMAGES; WATERMARKING TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; COPYRIGHTS; COSINE TRANSFORMS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0033882559     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.817598     Document Type: Article

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