Title: The secret-open watermarking scheme for ownership verification

Authors: Min-Jen Tsai, Mu-Yen Chen, Tien-Hwa Ho

Addresses: Institute of Information Management, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta-Hsueh Road, Hsin-Chu, 300, Taiwan. Institute of Information Management, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta-Hsueh Road, Hsin-Chu, 300, Taiwan. Institute of Information Management, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta-Hsueh Road, Hsin-Chu, 300, Taiwan

Abstract: An algorithm, adopting private and public watermark methodology, is proposed where the characteristic between the original image and the embedding watermark with visible content is utilised to form a two-stage verification process: secret-open watermarking. Performance analysis shows that the design scheme provides a sufficient ownership right verification mechanism and strong robustness under attack.

Keywords: digital watermarking; authentication; verification.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2004.003659

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2004 Vol.19 No.1, pp.39 - 42

Published online: 02 Oct 2003 *

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