This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Information Hiding, IH 2008, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in May 2008.
The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on anonymity and privacy, steganography, forensics, novel technologies and applications, watermarking, steganalysis, other hiding domains, network security, and fingerprinting.
Multimedia can be defined to be the combination and integration of more than one media format (e.g., text, graphics, images, animation, audio and video) in a given application. Content owners (e.g., movie studios and recording companies) have identified two major technologies for the protection of multimedia data: encryption and watermarking. Encryption is a procedure that renders the contents of a multimedia element unintelligible to unauthorized people. Digital watermarking has received increasing attention in recent years. Image watermarking is the process of embedding an invisible watermark in an image in order to make it very difficult to remove the watermark after intentional attacks and normal audio/visual processes. Distribution of movies, music, and images is now faster and easier via computer technology, especially on the Internet. Buy Now!
Since the mid 1990s, data hiding has been proposed as an enabling technology for securing multimedia communication, and is now used in various applications including broadcast monitoring, movie fingerprinting, steganography, video indexing and retrieval, and image authentication. Data hiding and cryptographic techniques are often combined to complement each other, thus triggering the development of a new research field of multimedia security. Besides, two related disciplines, steganalysis and data forensics, are increasingly attracting researchers and becoming another new research field of multimedia security. This journal, LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security, aims to be a forum for all researchers in these emerging fields, publishing both original and archival research results.
This third issue contains five contributions in the areas of steganography and digital watermarking. The first two papers deal with the security of steganographic systems; the third paper presents a novel image steganographic scheme. Finally, this volume includes two papers that focus on digital watermarking and data hiding. The fourth paper introduces and analyzes a new covert channel and the fifth contribution analyzes the performance of additive attacks against quantization-based data hiding methods.
The arrival, and continuing evolution, of high quality 3D objects has been made possible by recent progress in 3D scanner acquisition and 3D graphics rendering. With this increasing quality comes a corresponding increase in the size and complexity of the data files and the necessity for advances in compression techniques. Effective indexing to facilitate the retrieval of the 3D data is then required to efficiently store, search and recapture the objects that have been compressed. The application of 3D images in fields such as communications, medicine and the military also calls for copyright protection, or watermarking, to secure the data for transmission.
Written by expert contributors, this timely text brings together the three important and complementary topics of compression, retrieval and watermarking techniques for 3D objects. 3D object processing applications are developing rapidly and this book tackles the challenges and opportunities presented, focusing on the secure transmission, sharing and searching of 3D objects on networks, and includes:
an introduction to the commonly used 3D representation schemes; the characteristics, advantages and limitations of polygonal meshes, surface based models and volumetric models;
3D compression techniques; the 3D coding and decoding schemes for reducing the size of 3D data to reduce transmission time and minimize distortion;
state of the art responses to the intrinsic challenges of building a 3D-model search engine, considering view-based, structural and full-3D approaches;
watermarking techniques for ensuring intellectual property protection and content security without altering the visual quality of the 3D object.
3D Object Processing: Compression, Indexing and Watermarking is an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers working in signal and image processing, computer aided design, animation and imaging systems. Practising engineers who want to expand their knowledge of 3D video objects, including data compression, indexing, security, and copyrighting of information, will also find this book of great use.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Information Hiding, IH 2007, held in Saint Malo, France, in June 2007.
The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on new steganographic schemes, watermarking schemes, computer security, steganography and code theory, watermarking security, steganalysis, watermarking and re-synchronization, fingerprinting, forensics, and steganalysis.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop of Sequences, Subsequences and Consequences, SSC 2007, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in May/June 2007.
The 16 revised invited full papers and 1 revised contributed paper presented together with 3 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation in the book. The theory of sequences from discrete symbol alphabets has found practical applications in many areas of coded communications and in cryptography, including: signal patterns for use in radar and sonar; spectral spreading sequences for CDMA wireless telephony; key streams for direct sequence stream-cipher cryptography; and a variety of forward-error-correcting codes. The workshop permits leading researchers on sequences from around the world to present their latest results and recent developments in this important field.
by: Frank Y. Shih publisher: CRC released: 2007-12-17 ISBN: 1420047574 Price: $63.96 Buy Now!
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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. Buy Now!
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Watermarking text. September 1, 2008
This is a good watermarking text. It is good for someone who wants to get started in the field since it explains all kinds of watermarking techniques and attacks. Even though the book cover a lot of areas, its size is still very reasonable for the new people. Buy Now!
A comprehensive review of Digital Watermarking and Seganography. January 12, 2008
This book is the most comprehensive and highly technical book on digital watermarking and steganography. Its a must have for anyone working in the field of Information Security. Buy Now!
by: Ingemar Cox, Matthew Miller, Jeffrey Bloom, Jessica Fridrich, Ton Kalker publisher: Morgan Kaufmann released: 2007-11-16 ISBN: 0123725852 Price: $63.96 Buy Now!
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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 Buy Now!
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A comprehensive review of Digital Watermarking and Seganography. January 12, 2008 
