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Information Hiding (IH 1998)

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In the last few years, a large number of schemes have been proposed for hiding copyright marks and other information in digital pictures, video, audio and other multimedia objects. We describe some contenders that have appeared in the research literature and in the field; we then present a number of attacks that enable the information hidden by them to be removed or otherwise rendered unusable.

The first author is grateful to Intel Corporation for financial support under the grant ‘Robustness of Information Hiding Systems’

The third author is supported by a European Commission Marie-Curie grant

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Petitcolas, F.A.P., Anderson, R.J., Kuhn, M.G. (1998). Attacks on Copyright Marking Systems. In: Aucsmith, D. (eds) Information Hiding. IH 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1525. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49380-8_16

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