Wavelet-based watermarking for color images through visual masking

AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 112-124

  Liu, Kuo Cheng ^a  

^a Taiwan Hospitality and Tourism College   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chrominance; Luminance; Perceptually lossless quantization; Robustness; Transparency

Indexed keywords

COLOR; SIMULATORS; TRANSPARENCY; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; WATERMARKING; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

COLOR COMPONENT; COLOR IMAGE WATERMARKING; COLOR IMAGES; COLOR VISUAL MODEL; EMBEDDING WATERMARKS; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; MAXIMUM STRENGTH; NOISE DETECTION; PERCEPTUAL MODEL; PERCEPTUALLY LOSSLESS; PERCEPTUALLY LOSSLESS QUANTIZATION; QUANTIZATION MATRIX; SIMULATION RESULT; VISUAL MASKING; WATERMARK TRANSPARENCY; WATERMARKING SCHEMES; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 72249103415     PISSN: 14348411     EISSN: 16180399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeue.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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