A new contourlet-domain based image watermarking scheme resilient to geometrical attacks

International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 115-130

  Lou, Ou Jun ^a   Wang, Xiang Hai ^b   Wang, Zheng Xuan ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LIAONING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contourlet; Feature point; Geometry attack; Template

Indexed keywords

AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; COLUMN REMOVALS; COMMON SIGNAL PROCESSING; CONTOURLET; FEATURE POINT; FEATURE TEMPLATES; GEOMETRICAL ATTACKS; GEOMETRICAL DISTORTIONS; HOST IMAGES; IMAGE WATERMARKING; JPEG COMPRESSIONS; MEDIAN FILTERING; NOISE ADDING; STRENGTH FACTORS; SUBBANDS; TEMPLATE; TEXTURED REGIONS; TRANSFORM DOMAINS; WATERMARK DETECTIONS; WATERMARK RESYNCHRONIZATION; WATERMARK SCHEMES;

MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

WATERMARKING;

EID: 65449142429     PISSN: 02196913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219691309002817     Document Type: Article

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