Title :
Robust watermarking of facial images based on salient geometric pattern matching
Author :
Nikolaidis, Athanasios ; Pitas, Ioannis
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf., Aristotelian Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
fDate :
9/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We introduce a novel method for embedding and detecting a chaotic watermark in the digital spatial domain of color facial images, based on localizing salient facial features. These features define a certain area on which the watermark is embedded and detected. An assessment of the watermarking robustness is done experimentally, by testing resistance to several attacks, such as compression, filtering, noise addition, scaling, cropping and rotation
Keywords :
copy protection; feature extraction; image matching; image segmentation; multimedia systems; chaotic watermark; color facial images; compression; copyright protection; cropping; digital spatial domain; facial images; feature extraction; filtering; image segmentation; multimedia data protection; noise addition; robust watermarking; rotation; salient facial features; salient geometric pattern matching; scaling; Copyright protection; Facial features; Feature extraction; Filtering; Fourier transforms; Image coding; Image segmentation; Pattern matching; Robustness; Watermarking;
Journal_Title :
Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/6046.865482
