A wavelet-tree-based watermarking method using distance vector of binary cluster

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 9869-9878

  Lin, Wei Hung ^a   Wang, Yuh Rau ^b   Horng, Shi Jinn ^a,c  

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

^b ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Blind watermarking method; Copyright protection; Distance vector; Significant coefficient; Watermark; Wavelet tree

Indexed keywords

BLIND WATERMARKING METHOD; COPYRIGHT PROTECTION; DISTANCE VECTOR; SIGNIFICANT COEFFICIENT; WATERMARK; WAVELET TREE;

BINARY TREES; COPYRIGHTS; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; IMAGE PROCESSING; SYSTEM STABILITY; VECTORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

WATERMARKING;

DISTANCE; EXPERIMENTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICS; TREES;

EID: 64049096914     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.02.036     Document Type: Article

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