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Content protection in grayscale and color images based on robust digital watermarking

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The concept of digital rights management architecture for multimedia will be presented in this paper, with focus on robust digital image watermarking, which is able to undergo geometrical attacks performed against the embedded watermarks. Geometrical attacks are still an open problem for many digital watermarking algorithms used in present time. Most of geometrical attacks can be described by using affine transforms. A new approach to improve robustness against geometrical attacks is presented. The discrete Fourier transform and log-polar mapping are used for watermark embedding and for watermark detection. Some attacks against the embedded watermarks are performed and the results are given. Also two modifications, usage of the proposed method as a synchronization template and implementation for the color images, are presented and experimental results are given too.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Multimedia Communications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, Park Komenského 13, Košice, Slovakia

    Radovan Ridzoň & Dušan Levický

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Ridzoň, R., Levický, D. Content protection in grayscale and color images based on robust digital watermarking. Telecommun Syst 52, 1617–1631 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-011-9655-5

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