Adaptive watermarking and tree structure based image quality estimation

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 311-325

  Wang, Sha ^a   Zheng, Dong ^b   Zhao, Jiying ^a   Tam, Wa James ^b   Speranza, Filippo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Radio Science Branch   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bitplane decomposition; complexity analysis; DWT based watermark embedding; HVS masking; SPIHT tree structure; watermarking based image quality estimation

Indexed keywords

BITPLANE; COMPLEXITY ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY ESTIMATION; TREE STRUCTURES; WATERMARK EMBEDDING;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE WATERMARKING; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WATERMARKING;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; WATER MARKS;

EID: 84893345193     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2013.2291658     Document Type: Article

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