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. - This new edition now contains essential information on steganalysis and steganography - New concepts and new applications including QIM introduced - Digital watermark embedding is given a complete update with new processes and applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Digital Watermarking Secure Data Management, IWDW 2005, held in Siena, Italy in September 2005. The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on steganography and steganalysis, fingerprinting, watermarking, attacks, watermarking security, watermarking of unconventional media, channel coding and watermarking, theory, and applications.

"The book discusses new aspects of digital watermarking in a worldwide context"--Provided by publisher.

The Book presents an overview of newly developed watermarking techniques in various independent and hybrid domains Covers the basics of digital watermarking, its types, domain in which it is implemented and the application of machine learning algorithms onto digital watermarking Reviews hardware implementation of watermarking Discusses optimization problems and solutions in watermarking with a special focus on bio-inspired algorithms Includes a case study along with its MATLAB code and simulation results

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Digital Watermarking, IWDW 2008, held in Busan, Korea, in November 2008. The 36 regular papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. Areas of interest to the conference are mathematical modeling of embedding and detection; information theoretic, stochastic aspects of data hiding; security issues, including attacks and counter-attacks; combination of data hiding and cryptography; optimum watermark detection and reliable recovery; estimation of watermark capacity; channel coding techniques for watermarking; large-scale experimental tests and benchmarking; new statistical and perceptual models of content; reversible data hiding; data hiding in special media; data hiding and authentication; steganography and steganalysis; data forensics; copyright protection, DRM, and forensic watermarking; and visual cryptography.

Every day millions of people capture, store, transmit, and manipulate digital data. Unfortunately free access digital multimedia communication also provides virtually unprecedented opportunities to pirate copyrighted material. Providing the theoretical background needed to develop and implement advanced techniques and algorithms, Digital Watermarking and Steganography: Demonstrates how to develop and implement methods to guarantee the authenticity of digital media Explains the categorization of digital watermarking techniques based on characteristics as well as applications Presents cutting-edge techniques such as the GA-based breaking algorithm on the frequency-domain steganalytic system The popularity of digital media continues to soar. The theoretical foundation presented within this valuable reference will facilitate the creation on new techniques and algorithms to combat present and potential threats against information security.

Whether you need to quickly come up to speed on the state of the art in digital watermarking or want to explore the latest research in this area, such as 3-D geometry watermarking, this timely reference gives you the hands-on knowledge you need for your work. This book covers the full range of media -- still images, audio data, video, 3-D geometry data, formatted text, music scores, and program code -- that you can protect with digital watermarking.