ABSTRACT

The growth of the Internet has fueled the demand for enhanced watermarking and data hiding technologies and has stimulated research into new ways to implement watermarking systems in the real world. This book presents the principles of watermarking system design and discusses technologies in information concealment and recovery. It highlights the requirements and challenges of applications in security, image/video indexing, hidden communications, image captioning, and transmission error recovery and concealment. It explains digital watermarking technologies and offers an understanding of new approaches and applications, laying the groundwork for further developments in the field.

chapter 1|21 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|19 pages

Applications

chapter 3|45 pages

Information coding

chapter 4|61 pages

Data embedding

chapter 5|62 pages

Data concealment

chapter 6|90 pages

Data recovery

chapter 7|73 pages

Watermark impairments and benchmarking

chapter 8|22 pages

Security issues

chapter 9|25 pages

An information theoretic perspective