Digital Watermarking and Image Authentication: Algorithms and Applications

Author: Zhong Hua, Zhang Xiao Hua, Jiao Li Cheng
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Digital watermarking technology is an emerging information hiding technology. It has significant application value in areas such as authenticity verification, covert communication, logo embedding, and electronic identity authentication. The research on digital watermarking technology involves multiple disciplines, including informatics, cryptography, mathematics, computer science, and pattern recognition. Its vast and broad application prospects have attracted widespread attention from academia, industry, and the military. This book comprehensively presents various application algorithms and examples of digital image watermarking, with a thorough theoretical foundation and strong reference and operational value. The book is divided into 13 chapters. Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapters 2 to 5 focus on elaborating the basic framework, characteristics, design principles, and evaluation methods of robust watermarking, while introducing multiple watermarking algorithms based on different applications, carriers, and forms. Chapters 6 to 12 review the basic concepts and algorithms of authentication watermarking technology, analyze the principles, basic characteristics, and requirements of authentication watermarking technology, and introduce detailed algorithms and applications of binary image authentication, fragile watermarking, semi-fragile watermarking, and lossless watermarking. Chapter 13 reviews the content of the book and offers some suggestions and prospects for the future direction of digital watermarking. The appendix of the book lists some major individuals, company websites, and software introductions in the field of digital watermarking research. This book can serve as an introductory textbook or reference for senior undergraduate and graduate students in fields such as communication and electronic systems, signal and information processing. It can also be used as a reference for technical personnel and managers in areas such as information security and secure communication, multimedia digital product protection, and e-commerce security.