Coping with local geometric attacks by means of optic-flow-based resynchronization for robust watermarking

R. Caldelli; A. De Rosa; R. Becarelli; Mauro Barni

doi:10.1117/12.589106

21 March 2005 Coping with local geometric attacks by means of optic-flow-based resynchronization for robust watermarking

R. Caldelli, A. De Rosa, R. Becarelli, Mauro Barni

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Proceedings Volume 5681, Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.589106
Event: Electronic Imaging 2005, 2005, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

In the last years digital watermarking has been widely indicated as a possible efficient tool to deal with multimedia copyright protection. Particularly, in the field of image watermarking, a large number of techniques has been developed aiming at hiding information within the data. After an initial phase in which the main problem was to succeed in inserting a private code which was unperceivable, successively watermarking community tried to design watermarks which presented a high level of robustness that meant the ability to be revealed also when the image had undergone different manipulations (e.g. compression, D/A-A/D conversion, filtering). Although good results have been obtained in this field, resilience against geometric manipulations, (e.g. rotation, scaling, changes of aspect ratio) is still a research issue; furthermore robustness against Stirmark random-displacements attack in which small local geometric modifications are carried out, is still a crucial point for the majority of the so-called robust algorithms. In this paper a new approach, based on the estimation through an optic flow technique of the displacement field, correspondent to a specific geometric transformation, is proposed. This methodology can be adopted as a re-synchronization tool, to enhance robustness of digital image watermarking techniques.

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R. Caldelli, A. De Rosa, R. Becarelli, and Mauro Barni "Coping with local geometric attacks by means of optic-flow-based resynchronization for robust watermarking", Proc. SPIE 5681, Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII, (21 March 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.589106

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