Intelligent perceptual shaping of a digital watermark: Exploiting Characteristics of human visual system

International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 213-223

  Khan, Asifullah ^a   Mirza, Anwar M ^a   Majid, Abdul ^a  

^a GIK INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Discrete cosine transform (DCT); Genetic programming; Human visual system (HVS); Perceptual model; Spread spectrum and JPEG; Watermarking

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013580796     PISSN: 13272314     EISSN: 18758827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/KES-2006-10304     Document Type: Article

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