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Cultural institutions have an increasing need for protection of copyright on the internet. Digital images are easily downloaded and thus need to be protected from misuse. This project will develop a method for provision of protection.
An invisible signal, known as a digital watermark, is a mark placed on a still image. In a project Culture Net Denmark at The Royal library in Copenhagen a method for copyright protection of digital colour images is analysed and implemented.
The signature bits are embedded by modifying the blue channel in the image. A generator that produces random locations in the image, where the signatures bits are embedded, is chosen to prevent any removal of the signature. Specifically, a secret key determines where the signatures bits are embedded in the image.
To extract the signature a user needs to know the secret key.
Furthermore, a method is implemented to retrieve the signature without reference to the original image.
The robustness of the method against possible attacks via geometrical transformation or filtering is analysed.
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Mehrabi, H.R. (2001). Digital Watermark. In: Constantopoulos, P., Sølvberg, I.T. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2163. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44796-2_5
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