DIGITAL WATERMARKING: An IMAGE AUTHENTICATION TECHNIQUES

A TECHNOLOGY OVERVEIW

Introduction Digital Watermarking Watermarking vs. Cryptography Structure and Working of Typical Watermarking System

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Insertion Unit Detection and Extraction Unit

Types Issues Applications & Reference Model for Copyright Mgmt. Conclusion Bibliography
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INTRODUCTION
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Digital Watermarking Definition Watermarking vs. Encryption MORPHING Origin of the data Internet Digital copyrights

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Digital Watermarking
Definition: A digital watermark is a digital signal or pattern inserted into a digital document such as text, graphics or multimedia, and carries information unique to the copyright owner, the creator of the document or the authorized consumer.
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Watermarking Vs. Encryption

Encryption

involves document transformation so that the contents of the document are not visible without a decryption key Watermarking leaves the original file/image intact and recognizable

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Technique of embedding some information (Watermark) into multimedia contents (Video, Images, or Audio)

Watermarks can be later extracted to authenticate the content

Cryptography is the principle behind Watermarking

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STRUCTURE OF A TYPICAL WATERMARKING SYSTEM

WATERMARK INSERTION UNIT

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WATERMARK DETECTION AND EXTRACTION UNIT

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BASIC BLOCK DIAGRAM

Watermar k Key Original Image X K Watermark Embedder

X

Noise

Attacks Watermar k Key K

Communication Communication Channel Channel

Watermark Watermar k Detector/Extractor W

Watermar k Image W

X=Ek(X,W)
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W=Dk(X)

Original Image

Image used as watermark

Watermarked Image-A
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TYPES OF WATERMARKS

Visible and Invisible Watermarks Robust and Fragile Watermarks Informed and Blind Watermarks

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WATERMARKING ISSUES

Security Robustness Capacity Imperceptibility

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APPLICATIONS
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Ownership Assertion Fingerprinting Copy prevention Tamper Detection

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A REFERENCE MODEL FOR COPYRIGHT MANAGEMENT

Copyright Management Model

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CONCLUSION
The watermarking research is progressing very fast and numerous researcher from various fields are focusing to develop some workable scheme. Different companies also working to get commercial products. Digital watermarking is a rapidly evolving area of research and development

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
www.dh.aist.go.jp www.elsevier.com www.wikipedia.com www.arnab.com

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THANK YOU
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