Orientation modulation for data hiding in clustered-dot halftone prints

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2070-2084

  Bulan, Orhan ^a   Sharma, Gaurav ^a   Monga, Vishal ^b  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustered dot halftones; data hiding; dot orientation modulation; hardcopy data hiding; print scan channel model

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SCENARIO; AUTOMATED EXTRACTION; BILEVEL; CHANNEL MODEL; COVER-IMAGE; DATA DETECTION; DATA HIDING; DATA VALUES; DECISION DIRECTED SYNCHRONIZATIONS; EMBEDDING CAPACITY; EMBEDDING METHOD; ERROR CONTROL; GEOMETRIC DISTORTION; GLOBAL SCALING; HALFTONE CELLS; HALFTONE IMAGES; HALFTONE PRINTS; HALFTONE STRUCTURES; HALFTONING; IMAGE FIDELITY; PRINT-SCAN; PRINT-SCAN CHANNEL MODEL; STATISTICAL REPRESENTATIONS; STRINGENT REQUIREMENT; THRESHOLD FUNCTIONS;

ERROR DETECTION; IMAGE QUALITY; MODULATION; PRINTING;

STEGANOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PACKAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PRODUCT LABELING; SECURITY MEASURES;

EID: 77954699777     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2046795     Document Type: Article

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