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Digital watermarking scheme exploiting nondeterministic dependence for image authentication

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posted on 2006-12-01, 00:00 authored by Chang-Tsun LiChang-Tsun Li, Y Yuan
Watermarking schemes for authentication purposes are characterized by three factors: security, resolution of tamper localization, and embedding distortion. Since the requirements of high secudty, high localization resolution, and low distortion cannot be fulfilled simultaneously, the relative importance of a particular factor is application-dependent. Moreover, blockwise dependence is recognized as a key requirement for fragile watermarking schemes to thwart the Holliman-Memon counterfeiting attack. However, it has also been observed that deterministic dependence is still susceptible to transplantation attack or even simple cover-up attack. This work proposes a fragile watermarking scheme for image authentication, which exploits nondeterministic dependence and provides the users with freedom of making trade-offs among the three factors according to the needs of their applications. © 2006 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.

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Journal

Optical engineering

Volume

45

Article number

12700

Location

Bellingham, Wash.

ISSN

0091-3286

eISSN

1560-2303

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Issue

12

Publisher

SPIE

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