Robust and transparent watermarking scheme for colour images

IET Image Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 228-242

  Liu, K C ^a   Chou, C H ^b  

^a Taiwan Hospitality   (Taiwan)

^b Tatun University   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOUR IMAGE; COLOUR SPACES; HIGH STRENGTH; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; LOCAL VARIATIONS; MALICIOUS ATTACK; MASKING EFFECT; PERCEPTUAL REDUNDANCY; ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT WATERMARKING; SIMULATION RESULT; SUB-BANDS; VISIBILITY THRESHOLD; WATERMARKING SCHEMES; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET DOMAIN;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY; WATERMARKING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COLOR;

EID: 69149091825     PISSN: 17519659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr.2008.0068     Document Type: Article

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