New additive watermark detectors based on a hierarchical spatially adaptive image model

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-37

  Mairgiotis, Antonis K ^b   Galatsanos, Nikolaos P ^a,b   Yang, Yongyi ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian detector; Generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) test; Image prior; Rao test; Statistical methods; Watermark detection; Watermarking

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST (GLRT) TEST; IMAGE PRIOR; WATERMARK DETECTION;

DIGITAL WATERMARKING;

EID: 39449114855     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2007.916290     Document Type: Article

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