Digital Watermarking and Steganography

This book provides a framework for researching and working with digital watermarking and steganography techniques.

Ingemar Cox (Author), Matthew Miller (Author), Jeffrey Bloom (Author), Jessica Fridrich (Author), Ton Kalker (Author)

9780123725851

Hardback, published 23 November 2007

624 pages
23.4 x 19 x 3.4 cm, 1.17 kg

Digital audio, video, images, and documents are flying through cyberspace to their respective owners. Unfortunately, along the way, individuals may choose to intervene and take this content for themselves. Digital watermarking and steganography technology greatly reduces the instances of this by limiting or eliminating the ability of third parties to decipher the content that he has taken. The many techiniques of digital watermarking (embedding a code) and steganography (hiding information) continue to evolve as applications that necessitate them do the same. The authors of this second edition provide an update on the framework for applying these techniques that they provided researchers and professionals in the first well-received edition. Steganography and steganalysis (the art of detecting hidden information) have been added to a robust treatment of digital watermarking, as many in each field research and deal with the other. New material includes watermarking with side information, QIM, and dirty-paper codes. The revision and inclusion of new material by these influential authors has created a must-own book for anyone in this profession.

1. Introduction
2. Applications and Properties
3. Models of Watermarking
4. Message Coding
5. Watermarking with Side Information
6. Structured Dirty-Paper Codes
7. Analyzing Errors
8. Using Perceptual Models
9. Robust Watermarking
10. Watermark Security
11. Content Authentication
12. Steganography and Steganalysis

Subject Areas: Network security [UTN], Computer networking & communications [UT], Data encryption [URY], Digital photography: consumer/user guides [UDP], Special kinds of photography [AJR]