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Digital watermarking techniques are based on information hiding techniques similar to steganographic approaches with the overall goal to embed information into a cover signal, usually multi media data.
The term digital watermarking was used for the first time by [1], actually written in two words: “water mark.” Instead of a confidential or hidden communication, watermarking addresses the security aspects of data and user authentication or data integrity protection, where a digital watermark is a perceptually transparent pattern inserted in digital data using an embedding algorithm and an embedding key. A detection algorithm using the appropriate detection key can retrieve the watermark information. In most approaches the embedding and detection keys are secret, see more details in [2] or [3] (Fig 1).
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Steinebach, M., Dittmann, J., Neuhold, E. (2008). Digital Watermarking. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78414-4_303
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