Title :
Standard metadata embedding in a digital image
Author :
Caldelli, Roberto ; Bartolini, Franco ; Cappellini, Vito
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Commun., Florence Univ., Italy
Abstract :
Telecommunications and digital networks development has determined a strongly diffusion of many disparate multimedia communication services. Distribution and successive fruition of digital contents surely cover the major part of these opportunities. Anyway the availability of a reliable infrastructure for managing all the issues related to the exchange of multimedia items among users through heterogeneous networks and systems is a crucial point. Such a need is also witnessed by numerous international initiatives (DCMI, MPEG-21, JPEG/JPEG2000 and so on) whose principal goal is to achieve a common agreement on Digital Items Identification and Description to allow transactions of digital objects in a standardized, secure and authorized manner. In this paper, a practical application which utilizes a specific digital watermarking technique to embed in a digital content standard metadata related to the content itself is presented.
Keywords :
copyright; data compression; data encapsulation; image coding; meta data; security of data; watermarking; digital contents; digital image; digital item description; digital item identification; digital networks; digital object transactions; digital watermarking; metadata embedding; multimedia communication; multimedia services; telecommunications network; Availability; Communication system security; Digital images; ISO standards; Intellectual property; Intelligent networks; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Telecommunication network reliability; Watermarking;
Conference_Titel :
Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2003. Proceedings. 14th International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1993-8
DOI :
10.1109/DEXA.2003.1232005