A new evaluation protocol for robust 3D mesh watermarking

This paper presents a new evaluation protocol for robust mesh watermarking schemes. This protocol allows comparing different mesh watermarking techniques by measuring their performances score. This last one is based on numerous criteria which are: robustness in front attacks, invisibility, detection type, detected information nature, capacity and complexity. For every criterion, the proposed protocol defines the best and the lowest values and calculates its evaluation score. Finally, a performances score of the given scheme is defined based on these evaluation scores. To evaluate the proposed protocol, we use it to calculate the performances scores for five existing schemes to compare them. Experimental results show that the proposed protocol is simple to use and allows obtaining an efficient comparison of existing mesh watermarking schemes.