A model for the assessment of watermark quality with regard to fidelity

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 621-642

  Xenos, Michalis ^a,b,c,d,e   Hantzara, Katerina ^c,f   Mitsou, Evanthia ^c   Kostopoulos, Ioannis ^c,e,g,h  

^a HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d TECHNICAL CHAMBER OF GREECE   (Greece)

^e IEEE   (Greece)

^f Institute of Patras   (Greece)

^g Database Laboratory   (Greece)

^h Multimedia Coding and Watermarking Group   (Greece)

Author keywords

Information hiding; Watermark quality; Watermarks

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION HIDING; WATERMARK QUALITY; WATERMARKS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

WATERMARKING;

EID: 27144490366     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2005.03.006     Document Type: Article

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