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In this paper we present an attack to fixed depth image watermarks. The attack is based on histogram analysis of a watermarked image. With this attack, the watermark can often be reconstructed from just a few images, without using the detector.
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Maes, M. (1998). Twin Peaks: The Histogram Attack to Fixed Depth Image Watermarks. 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_20
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