Color image watermarking using multidimensional fourier transforms

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-28

  Tsui, Tsz Kin ^a,b   Zhang, Xiao Ping ^a,c   Androutsos, Dimitrios ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b RESEARCH IN MOTION   (Canada)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Color; Data hiding; Digital image watermarking; Quaternion Fourier transform (QFT); Spatiochromatic discrete Fourier transform (SCDFT)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

DATA HIDING; DIGITAL IMAGE WATERMARKING; QUATERNION FOURIER TRANSFORM (QFT); SPATIOCHROMATIC DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORM (SCDFT);

DIGITAL WATERMARKING;

EID: 39449125016     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2007.916275     Document Type: Article

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