BCH coding and intelligent watermark embedding: Employing both frequency and strength selection

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 332-343

  Usman, Imran ^a   Khan, Asifullah ^a,b  

^a PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

BCH coding; Digital watermarking; Discrete Cosine Transform; Genetic Programming; Watermark embedding

Indexed keywords

BCH CODING; CONTEXT-AWARE; CONTRAST MASKING; GAIN INFORMATION; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; NON-LINEAR; SPREAD SPECTRA; SPREAD SPECTRUM SEQUENCE; WATERMARK EMBEDDING; WATERMARKING SYSTEMS;

COSINE TRANSFORMS; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY BANDS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; SPECTROSCOPY; TUNING;

WATERMARKING;

EID: 70350217629     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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