A new digital image watermarking algorithm resilient to desynchronization attacks

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 655-663

  Wang, Xiangyang ^a   Wu, Jun ^a   Niu, Panpan ^a  

^a LIAONING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Desynchronization attack; Feature points; Image watermarking; Local characteristic regions (LCRs)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER CRIME; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DESYNCHRONIZATION ATTACK; FEATURE POINTS; HARRIS-LAPLACE DETECTOR; IMAGE WATERMARKING; LOCAL CHARACTERISTIC REGIONS (LCR);

DIGITAL WATERMARKING;

EID: 36348960234     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2007.908233     Document Type: Article

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