Recognition in software watermarking

Proceedings of the ACM International Multimedia Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 29-36

  Zhu, William ^a   Thomborson, Clark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Embedder; Extraction; Graph; Interference graph; Recognition; Software watermark

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COPYRIGHTS; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; SECURITY OF DATA; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

INTERFERENCE GRAPHS; SOFTWARE WATERMARKS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547374329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1178766.1178776     Document Type: Conference Paper

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