BINARY IMAGE WATERMARKING THROUGH BLURRING and BIASED BINARIZATION

International Journal of Image and Graphics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-87

  Lu, Haiping ^a   Shi, Yun Q ^b   Kot, Alex C ^c   Chen, Lihui ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

binarization; binary image; Digital watermarking

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL WATERMARKING; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE WATERMARKING;

BINARIZATION THRESHOLD; BINARIZATIONS; BLURRED IMAGE; DC COMPONENTS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM(DCT); WATERMARKING ALGORITHMS;

BINARY IMAGES;

EID: 33947682873     PISSN: 02194678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219467805001665     Document Type: Article

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