Optimal watermark detection under quantization in the transform domain

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1308-1319

  Briassouli, Alexia ^a,b   Strintzis, Michael G ^a,c  

^a INFORMATICS AND TELEMATICS INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cauchy detector; Dither theory; Quantization attacks; Watermarking

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; DIGITAL STORAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CAUCHY DETECTORS; DIETHER THEORY; QUANTIZATION ATTACKS;

DIGITAL WATERMARKING;

EID: 9744259595     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2004.836753     Document Type: Article

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