Joint watermarking and compression using scalar quantization for maximizing robustness in the presence of additive Gaussian attacks

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 53, Issue 2 II, 2005, Pages 834-844

  Wu, Guixing ^a   Yang, En Hui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fixed rate uniform and nonuniform quantization; Joint watermarking and compression; Minimum distance decoding; Optimization; Robustness

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECODING; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN ATTACKS; DISTORTION-TO-NOISE RATIO; MINIMUM DISTANCE DECODING; QUANTIZATION WATERMARKING; SCALAR QUANTIZATION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 13244252393     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2004.839911     Document Type: Article

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