Embedding and detecting a watermark in images

A digital image signal is watermarked by locally changing geometric features of the image. The watermark consists of a pseudo-random, dense subset of image pixels, e.g., a pattern of lines (20). A number of significant image pixels (21,22,23), i.e., pixels which give the highest response to a predet...

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Hauptverfasser:	MAES MAURICE J.J.J-B, VAN OVERVELD CORNELIS W.A.M, RONGEN PETER M.J
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	CALCULATING COMPUTING COUNTING ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ELECTRICITY IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL PHYSICS PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
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Zusammenfassung:	A digital image signal is watermarked by locally changing geometric features of the image. The watermark consists of a pseudo-random, dense subset of image pixels, e.g., a pattern of lines (20). A number of significant image pixels (21,22,23), i.e., pixels which give the highest response to a predetermined processing operation, is determined and then moved (24) to the vicinity (delta) of the line pattern. As a result of this "warping", the majority of significant image pixels (21,22) is eventually located within the vicinity of the line pattern. At the receiver end, the most significant pixels of an input image are again determined. The image is a watermarked image if a statistically high percentage lies within the vicinity of the line pattern.