In recent years, media digitalization has been booming. It has, however, led to a phenomenon of private data hacking, which was stimulated by the expansion of the data exchange system. These hackers are being countered by using new techniques, including cryptography and watermarking. Therefore, in the fields of information security, data encryption, and watermarking, there exists a need for a collection of original research in this area. Applications of Encryption and Watermarking for Information Security provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the domains of security and privacy. It is written for professionals who want to improve their understanding of the strategic role of trust at different levels of information security, that is, trust at the level of cryptography and watermarking and at the level of securing multimedia data. Covering topics such as background subtraction, moving object detection, and visual watermark identification, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for security and privacy professionals, IT managers, practitioners, students and educators of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

Multimedia Encryption and Watermarking presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary multimedia encryption and watermarking techniques, which enable a secure exchange of multimedia intellectual property. Part I, Digital Rights Management (DRM) for Multimedia, introduces DRM concepts and models for multimedia content protection, and presents the key players. Part II, Multimedia Cryptography, provides an overview of modern cryptography, with the focus on modern image, video, speech, and audio encryption techniques. This book also provides an advanced concept of visual and audio sharing techniques. Part III, Digital Watermarking, introduces the concept of watermarking for multimedia, classifies watermarking applications, and evaluates various multimedia watermarking concepts and techniques, including digital watermarking techniques for binary images. Multimedia Encryption and Watermarking is designed for researchers and practitioners, as well as scientists and engineers who design and develop systems for the protection of digital multimedia content. This volume is also suitable as a textbook for graduate courses on multimedia security.

This book explains how to measure the security of a watermarking scheme, how to design secure schemes but also how to attack popular watermarking schemes. This book gathers the most recent achievements in the field of watermarking security by considering both parts of this cat and mouse game. This book is useful to industrial practitioners who would like to increase the security of their watermarking applications and for academics to quickly master this fascinating domain.

The growth of the Internet has fueled the demand for enhanced watermarking and data hiding technologies and has stimulated research into new ways to implement watermarking systems in the real world. This book presents the principles of watermarking system design and discusses technologies in information concealment and recovery. It highlights the requirements and challenges of applications in security, image/video indexing, hidden communications, image captioning, and transmission error recovery and concealment. It explains digital watermarking technologies and offers an understanding of new approaches and applications, laying the groundwork for further developments in the field.

"This book provides technical information on multimedia security and steganography as well as the fundamental theoretical framework for developing the extensive advanced techniques. By comprehensively considering the essential principles of the multimedia security and steganographic systems, readers can not only obtain the novel ideas in implementing the advanced algorithms, but also discover the new problems. The book consists of many technical tutorials from various professionals. The text is illustrated with plentiful graphs and examples in order to simplify the problems, so readers can easily understand even complicated theories"--

This book focuses on image based security techniques, namely visual cryptography, watermarking, and steganography. This book is divided into four sections. The first section explores basic to advanced concepts of visual cryptography. The second section of the book covers digital image watermarking including watermarking algorithms, frameworks for modeling watermarking systems, and the evaluation of watermarking techniques. The next section analyzes steganography and steganalysis, including the notion, terminology and building blocks of steganographic communication. The final section of the book describes the concept of hybrid approaches which includes all image-based security techniques. One can also explore various advanced research domains related to the multimedia security field in the final section. The book includes many examples and applications, as well as implementation using MATLAB, wherever required. Features: Provides a comprehensive introduction to visual cryptography, digital watermarking and steganography in one book Includes real-life examples and applications throughout Covers theoretical and practical concepts related to security of other multimedia objects using image based security techniques Presents the implementation of all important concepts in MATLAB

This book presents the state-of-the-arts application of digital watermarking in audio, speech, image, video, 3D mesh graph, text, software, natural language, ontology, network stream, relational database, XML, and hardware IPs. It also presents new and recent algorithms in digital watermarking for copyright protection and discusses future trends in the field. Today, the illegal manipulation of genuine digital objects and products represents a considerable problem in the digital world. Offering an effective solution, digital watermarking can be applied to protect intellectual property, as well as fingerprinting, enhance the security and proof-of-authentication through unsecured channels.