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Security Imaging: Data Hiding and Digital Watermarking

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Creating and distributing digital images can involve processing more than pixel colors. Information embedded in digital images is used to determine authorship, time stamps, qualitative information about the image, and other metadata. Higher security is needed for applications such as digital watermarking, ownership determination, and embedded covert messages. Innovative technology exists to embed data in a digital image that is retrievable, readable, but also irremovable and imperceptible. This section provides a survey of technology used to securely embed data in digital images for a wide range of applications including covert communication and conditional access rights. Example techniques are illustrated including least-significant-bit modification and discrete cosine transforms.

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Abbreviations

DCT:

Discrete cosine transform

LSB:

Least significant bit of a binary number

RGB:

A color represented as a combination of its red, green, and blue color channels; often used in reference to a pixel color that has 24-bits of precision with 8-bit channels for each of its red, green, and blue components

YCrCb :

A representation of an RGB color in terms of its luminance (Y) and chrominance (Cr and Cb) components

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    Daniel Taranovsky

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  1. FH für Gestaltung, Technik, Hochschule Pforzheim, Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Karlheinz Blankenbach

  2. Fuzhou University, Fuzhou City, Fujian, China

    Qun Yan

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    Robert J. O'Brien

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    Jon Peddie

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    Jon Peddie

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Taranovsky, D. (2023). Security Imaging: Data Hiding and Digital Watermarking. In: Blankenbach, K., Yan, Q., O'Brien, R.J. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35947-7_31-3

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    Security Imaging: Data Hiding and Digital Watermarking
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35947-7_31-3

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