Adaptive watermark mechanism for rightful ownership protection

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1118-1129

  Chang, Chin Chen ^a,b   Lin, Pei Yu ^b  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Copyright protection; Digital signature; Digital watermarking; Lossless images; Sobel; Torus automorphism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COPYRIGHTS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS;

COPYRIGHT PROTECTION; LOSSLESS IMAGES; TORUS AUTOMORPHISM;

DIGITAL WATERMARKING;

EID: 44049085895     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.07.036     Document Type: Article

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