An efficient wavelet-tree-based watermarking method

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 14357-14366

  Run, Ray Shine ^a   Horng, Shi Jinn ^b   Lin, Wei Hung ^b   Kao, Tzong Wann ^c   Fan, Pingzhi ^d   Khan, Muhammad Khurram ^e  

^a NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c Institute of Northern Taiwan   (Taiwan)

^d SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Blind watermarking method; Copyright protection; Local significant difference; Watermark; Wavelet tree

Indexed keywords

BLIND WATERMARKING; COPYRIGHT PROTECTION; LOCAL SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; WATERMARK; WAVELET TREE;

COPYRIGHTS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE PROCESSING; PLANT EXTRACTS;

WATERMARKING;

EXTRACTIVES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANTS;

EID: 80052030265     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.03.024     Document Type: Article

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