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The new method for digital image watermarking , presented in this chapter, could be used for intellectual property right protection of digital still images of any kind (natural, scanned documents, computer graphics, etc.). The method is suitable for distance learning applications; access control for medical or biometric information in corresponding databases; detection of forgeries and illegal distribution of electronic or scanned documents; data hiding in medical, cartographic, and other images; authorized contents editing; etc.
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This work was supported by the National Fund for Scientific Research of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science (Contract VU-I -305/07) and the US-Bulgarian project in the Science of Learning, National Academy of Science, USA.
Special thanks to the Laboratory for Image and Sound Processing of the Technical University of Sofia – Bulgaria, which provided the test images from their own database.
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Kountchev, R., Milanova, M., Todorov, V., Kountcheva, R. (2009). Image Watermarking Based on Pyramid Decomposition with CH Transform. In: Chan, Y., Talburt, J., Talley, T. (eds) Data Engineering. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 132. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0176-7_16
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