Secure Watermarking for Multimedia Content Protection: A Review of its Benefits and Open Issues

Author

Bianchi, Tiziano ; Piva, A.

Author_Institution

Elettron. e Telecomun., Univ. of Florence, Florence, Italy

Volume

30

Issue

2

fYear

2013

fDate

Mar-13

Firstpage

87

Lastpage

96

Abstract

The paper illustrates recent results regarding secure watermarking to the signal processing community, highlighting both benefits and still open issues. Secure signal processing, by which indicates a set of techniques able to process sensitive signals that have been obfuscated either by encryption or by other privacy-preserving primitives, may offer valuable solutions to the aforementioned issues. More specifically, the adoption of efficient methods for watermark embedding or detection on data that have been secured in some way, which we name in short secure watermarking, provides an elegant way to solve the security concerns of fingerprinting applications.

Keywords

cryptography; fingerprint identification; image watermarking; object detection; encryption; fingerprinting application; multimedia content protection; privacy-preserving primitive; signal processing; watermark detection; watermark embedding; watermarking security; Computer generated music; Computer security; Content management; Digital music; Distributed processing; Multimedia communication; Social network services; Video on demand; Watermarking;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1053-5888

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MSP.2012.2228342

Filename

6461624