Watermarking in dithered halftone images with embeddable cells selection and inverse halftoning

Signal Processing

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1496-1510

  Guo, Jing Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Blind decoding; Data hiding; Embeddable cell selection; Error diffusion and least squares; Halftone; Inverse halftoning; Ordered dither; Watermarking

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PIXELS;

BLIND DECODING; DATA HIDING; EMBEDDABLE CELL SELECTION; INVERSE HALFTONING;

DIGITAL WATERMARKING;

EID: 39749184675     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.12.015     Document Type: Article

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