Optimal image watermarking algorithm based on LWT-SVD via multi-objective ant colony optimization

Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 303-319

  Loukhaoukha, Khaled ^a   Chouinard, Jean Yves ^a   Taieb, Mohamed Haj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ant colony algorithm; Digital watermarking; False positive detection; Lifting wavelet transform; Multi objective optimization; Singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY ALGORITHMS; FALSE POSITIVE DETECTION; HIGH PROBABILITY; LIFTING WAVELET TRANSFORMS; MULTI OBJECTIVE; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; WATERMARK TRANSPARENCY; WATERMARKING SCHEMES;

ALGORITHMS; ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DIGITAL WATERMARKING; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; TRANSPARENCY;

WATERMARKING;

EID: 84862958850     PISSN: 20734212     EISSN: 20734239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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