Robust self embedding watermarking technique in the DWT domain for digital colored images

Journal of Digital Information Management

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 211-219

  Al Tahan Al Nu'aimi, Abdallah ^a   Qahwaji, Rami ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Copyright; Digital images; Embedding; Robustness; Scrambling; Watermaking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COPYRIGHTS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; PIXELS;

EMBEDDING; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; SCRAMBLING;

DIGITAL WATERMARKING;

EID: 44949187327     PISSN: 09727272     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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