Multiple watermarking based on visual secret sharing

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3005-3026

  Chen, Tzung Her ^a   Hung, Tsung Hao ^a   Horng, Gwoboa ^b   Chang, Chia Ming ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Digital wavelet transform; Discrete fourier transform; Multiple watermarking; Publicly verifiable; Visual secret sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 63549090936     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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