Analysis of the "wavelet Tree Quantization" watermarking strategy and a modified robust scheme

Multimedia Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 151-163

  Das, Tanmoy Kanti ^a   Maitra, Subhamoy ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Cryptanalysis; Digital watermarking; Information security; Multimedia systems; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; JAMMING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SECURITY OF DATA; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CRYPTANALYSIS; WATERMARK INSERTION PROCESS; WAVELET TREE QUANTIZATION;

DIGITAL WATERMARKING;

EID: 33750969059     PISSN: 09424962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00530-006-0046-9     Document Type: Article

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