Hybrid Pixel-Based Data Hiding and Block-Based Watermarking for Error-Diffused Halftone Images

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 867-884

  Pei, Soo Chang ^a   Guo, Jing Ming ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b JINWEN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Digital watermark; Dot diffusion; Error diffusion; Halftone; Least squares; Ordered dither

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECODING; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; TABLE LOOKUP;

NOISE-BALANCED ERROR DIFFUSION (NBEDF);

DIGITAL WATERMARKING;

EID: 0141527376     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2003.815943     Document Type: Article

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