RST invariant image watermarking algorithm with mathematical modeling and analysis of the watermarking processes

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1055-1068

  Zheng, Dong ^a   Wang, Sha ^b   Zhao, Jiying ^b  

^a Industry Canada   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image normalization; Invariant feature; Rotation, scaling, and translation (RST) invariant; Segmentation; Stochastic model; Watermarking

Indexed keywords

COVER IMAGES; FEATURE POINTS; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS; IMAGE NORMALIZATION; IMAGE WATERMARKING; IMAGE WATERMARKING ALGORITHMS; IMAGE-BASED; INVARIANT FEATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIPS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI PROBABILITIES; NOISE VISIBILITY FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY OF ERRORS; REFERENCE POINTS; ROTATION INVARIANT FEATURES; ROTATION, SCALING, AND TRANSLATION (RST) INVARIANT; RST INVARIANTS; SCALING INVARIANCES; SEGMENTATION; SUB-REGIONS; WATERMARK EMBEDDING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROTATION; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

WATERMARKING;

EID: 67349282978     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2014807     Document Type: Article

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