Watermarking robustness evaluation based on perceptual quality via genetic algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 207-216

  Boato, Giulia ^a   Conotter, Valentina ^a   De Natale, Francesco G B ^a   Fontanari, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Digital image watermarking; Genetic algorithms (GA); Perceptual quality

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SCENARIO; BENCHMARKING TOOLS; DIGITAL IMAGE WATERMARKING; EMBEDDED WATERMARKS; EVALUATION TOOL; MARKED IMAGE; PEAK SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; PROCESSING OPERATIONS; QUALITY METRIC; STOCHASTIC APPROACH; WATERMARKING ROBUSTNESS;

DIGITAL WATERMARKING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WATERMARKING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 67649494485     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2009.2020362     Document Type: Article

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