A blind watermarking scheme using new nontensor product wavelet filter banks

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3271-3284

  You, Xinge ^a   Du, Liang ^a   Cheung, Yiu Ming ^b   Chen, Qiuhui ^c  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES   (China)

Author keywords

Nontensor product wavelet filter; singularities; watermarking

Indexed keywords

BLIND WATERMARKING SCHEME; COPYRIGHT PROTECTIONS; DIGITAL PRODUCTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HIGH FREQUENCY; HUMAN EYE; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE SINGULARITY; MULTIRESOLUTION PROPERTY; SINGULARITIES; SUB-BANDS; SYMMETRIC MATRICES; WATERMARKING ALGORITHMS; WATERMARKING SCHEMES; WAVELET DOMAIN; WAVELET FILTER BANKS; WAVELET FILTERS;

COPYRIGHTS; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; FILTER BANKS; IMAGE PROCESSING; WATERMARKING;

WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SECURITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PUBLISHING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SECURITY; COPYRIGHT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649281812     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2055570     Document Type: Article

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