A new statistical detector for DWT-based additive image watermarking using the gauss-hermite expansion

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1782-1796

  Rahman, S M Mahbubur ^a   Ahmad, M Omair ^a   Swamy, M N S ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gauss Hermite (GH); Image watermarking; Probability density function (PDF); Receiver operating characteristics; Statistical detector; Wavelet coefficient

Indexed keywords

GAUSS-HERMITE (GH); IMAGE WATERMARKING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICAL DETECTOR; WAVELET COEFFICIENT;

DETECTORS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; WATERMARKING; WHITE NOISE; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 68149149840     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2021313     Document Type: Article

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