Watermarking schemes evaluation

In this article we have used a duality approach to the watermarking evaluation problem by splitting the evaluation criteria into two (independent) groups: functionality and assurance. The first group represents a set of requirements that can be verified using agreed series of tests; the second is a set of levels to which each functionality is evaluated. These levels go from zero or low to very high. We are investigating how evaluation profiles can be defined for different applications and how importance sampling techniques could be used to evaluate the false alarm rate in an automated way.