A robust blind color image watermarking based on wavelet-tree bit host difference selection

Signal Processing

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2498-2512

  Al Otum, Hazem Munawer ^a   Samara, Nedal Abdul ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Color image watermarking; Copyright protection; Wavelet trees

Indexed keywords

BLIND WATERMARKING; COLOR IMAGE WATERMARKING; COLOR PIXELS; COMMON SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPRESSION RATIOS; COPYRIGHT PROTECTIONS; HOST IMAGES; JPEG 2000; JPEG COMPRESSION; QUALITY FACTOR Q; WATERMARKED IMAGES; WAVELET DOMAIN;

COLOR; COPYRIGHTS; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; PIXELS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

WATERMARKING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MILITARY ENGINEERING; PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951203648     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2010.02.017     Document Type: Article

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