Digital Watermarking: Principles & Practice

Digital watermarking is a key ingredient to copyright protection. It provides a solution to illegal copying of digital material and has many other useful applications such as broadcast monitoring and the recording of electronic transactions. Now, for the first time, there is a book that focuses exclusively on this exciting technology. Digital Watermarking covers the crucial research findings in the field: it explains the principles underlying digital watermarking technologies, describes the requirements that have given rise to them, and discusses the diverse ends to which these technologies are being applied. As a result, additional groundwork is laid for future developments in this field, helping the reader understand and anticipate new approaches and applications.

Contents

Preface 
Example Watermarking Systems  
1 Introduction  
2 Applications and Properties  
3 Models of Watermarking  
4 Basic Message Coding  
5 Watermarking with Side Information  
6 Analyzing Errors  
7 Using Perceptual Models  
8 Robust Watermarking  
9 Watermark Security  
10 Content Authentication  
Appendix A: Background Concepts  
Appendix B: Selected Theoretical Results  
Appendix C: Source Code  
Appendix D: Notationand Common Variables  
Glossary 
References 
Index 
About the Authors