Progressive watermarking techniques using genetic algorithms

Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 671-687

  Huang, Hsiang Cheh ^a   Pan, Jeng Shyang ^b   Huang, Yu Hsiu ^c   Wang, Feng Hsing ^b   Huang, Kuang Chih ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c CHENG SHIU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; JPEG; Optimization; Progressive transmission; Scalable coding; Watermarking

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES;

PROGRESSIVE TRANSMISSION; SCALABLE CODING;

DIGITAL WATERMARKING;

EID: 37549069962     PISSN: 0278081X     EISSN: 15315878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00034-006-0104-z     Document Type: Article

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